DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. GeoSpock vs. InterSystems Caché vs. MaxDB vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. GeoSpock vs. InterSystems Caché vs. MaxDB vs. Tibero

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

A multi-model DBMS and application server

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

geospock.com

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

maxdb.sap.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.intersystems.com

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

GeoSpock

InterSystems

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2012

1997

1984

2003

Current release

2.0, September 2019

2018.1.4, May 2020

7.9.10.12, February 2024

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

C++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

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

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
C++
Java

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

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

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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