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DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. PostgreSQL

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. PostgreSQL

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonPostgreSQL  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksWidely used open source RDBMS infoDeveloped as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infowith object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS infowith pgvector extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score15.25
Rank#38  Overall
#23  Relational DBMS
Score1.89
Rank#128  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score2.85
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score644.36
Rank#4  Overall
#4  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftaws.amazon.com/­simpledbdruid.apache.orgatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorywww.postgresql.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.postgresql.org/­docs
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)AmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsAtos Convergence CreatorsPostgreSQL Global Development Group infowww.postgresql.org/­developer
Initial release20122007201220161989 info1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL
Current release30.0.0, June 2024170316.4, August 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageCJavaJavaC
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxFreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesoptionalyes
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.
Secondary indexesrestrictedyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardnoSQL for queryingnoyes infostandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
LDAPADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
All languages with LDAP bindings.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonnononouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infocell divisionpartitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensions
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoAtomic execution of specific operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemLDAP bind authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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