DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
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Score	2.10
Rank	#126	Overall
	#61	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#290	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

google.github.io/lovefield

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.heavy.ai

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Google

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2012

2016

2014

2008

Current release

5.10, January 2022

2.1.12, February 2017

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

server-less

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 query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate 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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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