DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. H2GIS vs. Interbase vs. Linter vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. H2GIS vs. Interbase vs. Linter vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Spatial extension of H2

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

RDBMS for high security requirements

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.h2gis.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

linter.ru

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

CNRS

Embarcadero

relex.ru

Initial release

2012

2013

1984

1990

2009

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

based on H2

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Interbase Change Views

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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