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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Netezza vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

IBM

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2019

2012

2000

2019

Current release

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

included in appliance

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

yes

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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