DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. EsgynDB vs. H2GIS vs. Kingbase vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. EsgynDB vs. H2GIS vs. Kingbase vs. SiteWhere

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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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial 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	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.esgyn.cn

www.h2gis.org

www.kingbase.com.cn

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Esgyn

CNRS

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

SiteWhere

Initial release

2012

2015

2013

1999

2010

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

C and Java

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java Stored Procedures

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

based on H2

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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