DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. GeoMesa vs. H2GIS vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. GeoMesa vs. H2GIS vs. SpaceTime

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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.

Spatial extension of H2

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.geomesa.org

www.h2gis.org

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

CCRi and others

CNRS

Mireo

Initial release

2012

2014

2013

2020

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on storage layer

yes

based on H2

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

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

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

yes

based on H2

yes

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