DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. GeoSpock vs. Lovefield vs. SAP IQ vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. GeoSpock vs. Lovefield vs. SAP IQ vs. TerarkDB

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Name

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

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

geospock.com

google.github.io/lovefield

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

GeoSpock

Google

SAP, formerly Sybase

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2012

2014

1994

2016

Current release

2.0, September 2019

2.1.12, February 2017

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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