DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Greenplum vs. H2GIS vs. Rockset vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Greenplum vs. H2GIS vs. Rockset vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

Spatial extension of H2

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Rank	#35	Overall
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Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

greenplum.org

www.h2gis.org

rockset.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.greenplum.org

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Pivotal Software Inc.

CNRS

Rockset

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2005

2013

2019

2011

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

since Version 4.2

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

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

none

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

based on H2

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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