DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. H2GIS vs. Kinetica vs. mSQL vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. H2GIS vs. Kinetica vs. mSQL vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Spatial extension of H2

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.h2gis.org

www.kinetica.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.kinetica.com

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

CNRS

Kinetica

Hughes Technologies

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2013

2012

1994

2014

Current release

7.1, August 2021

4.4, October 2021

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

none

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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