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DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. PostGIS vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. PostGIS vs. SurrealDB

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Microsofts flagship relational DBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score16.88
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.geomesa.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverpostgis.netsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverpostgis.net/­documentationsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)CCRi and othersMicrosoftSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20122014198920052022
Current release5.0.0, May 2024SQL Server 2022, November 20223.4.2, February 2024v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCScalaC++CRust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardnoyesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PythonnoTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javauser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layertables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesdepending on storage layeryes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layeryesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, based on authentication and database rules

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