DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. GeoMesa vs. PostGIS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. GeoMesa vs. PostGIS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. VelocityDB

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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 PostgreSQL

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.geomesa.org

postgis.net

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

postgis.net/documentation

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

CCRi and others

Sybase, SAP

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

2014

2005

1993

2011

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

3.4.2, February 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Any that supports .NET

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

.Net

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Delphi
Perl
PHP

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on storage layer

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

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

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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