DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. H2GIS vs. jBASE vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. H2GIS vs. jBASE vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Spatial extension of H2

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#157	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.h2gis.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

CNRS

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

2012

2013

1991

2014

Current release

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

based on H2

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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 can be defined down to the item level

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