DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Spatial extension of H2

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	72.95
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	1.23
Rank	#165	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.h2gis.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

CNRS

Microsoft

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2012

2013

2010

2018

Current release

V12

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

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.

yes

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

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

based on H2

Transact 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

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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