DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#100	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.geomesa.org

cloud.google.com/spanner

siridb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

CCRi and others

Google

Cesbit

Initial release

2012

2014

2017

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

simple rights management via user accounts

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