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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. H2GIS vs. OpenEdge vs. PostgreSQL vs. Tkrzw

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonPostgreSQL  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsSpatial extension of H2Application development environment with integrated database management systemWidely used open source RDBMS infoDeveloped as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQLA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infowith object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.Key-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS infowith pgvector extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score16.88
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score636.25
Rank#4  Overall
#4  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.h2gis.orgwww.progress.com/­openedgewww.postgresql.orgdbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestwww.postgresql.org/­docs
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)CNRSProgress Software CorporationPostgreSQL Global Development Group infowww.postgresql.org/­developerMikio Hirabayashi
Initial release2012201319841989 info1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL2020
Current releaseOpenEdge 12.2, March 202016.3, May 20240.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCJavaCC++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.no
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardyesyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infostandard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJavaProgress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonyes infobased on H2yesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.no
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hashnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on H2Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnonoyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on H2Users and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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