DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. EsgynDB vs. H2GIS vs. Kdb vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. EsgynDB vs. H2GIS vs. Kdb vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Spatial extension of H2

High performance Time Series DBMS

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.esgyn.cn

www.h2gis.org

kx.com

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

code.kx.com

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Esgyn

CNRS

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Percona

Initial release

2012

2015

2013

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2015

Current release

3.6, May 2018

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like query language (q)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Java

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java Stored Procedures

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

with views

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

based on H2

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

similar paradigm used for internal processing

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on H2

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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