DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. H2GIS

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. H2GIS

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Name

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Spatial extension of H2

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.gbase.cn

geospock.com

www.h2gis.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

GeoSpock

CNRS

Initial release

2012

2004

2013

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.0, September 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java, Javascript

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Standard with numerous extensions

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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)

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

Access rights for users can be defined per table

yes

based on H2

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