DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. EsgynDB vs. H2GIS vs. Kdb vs. Vertica

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. EsgynDB vs. H2GIS vs. Kdb vs. Vertica

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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

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series 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	10.68
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

code.kx.com

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Esgyn

CNRS

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

2012

2015

2013

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2005

Current release

3.6, May 2018

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

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'

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like query language (q)

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

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

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java Stored Procedures

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

with views

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

based on H2

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on H2

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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