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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Interbase vs. Pinecone vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#95	Overall
	#2	Vector DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.pinecone.io

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

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

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

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Embarcadero

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2012

1984

2019

2008

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Number, Boolean

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.

export as XML data possible

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

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

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

Interbase Change Views

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

Multiversion concurreny control

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

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