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

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

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  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 ScioreHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSWidely used open source RDBMS infoDeveloped as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Graph DBMSRelational 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
Score16.88
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score636.25
Rank#4  Overall
#4  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftaws.amazon.com/­simpledbatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorygithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.postgresql.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbhugegraph.apache.org/­docswww.postgresql.org/­docs
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)AmazonAtos Convergence CreatorsBaiduPostgreSQL Global Development Group infowww.postgresql.org/­developer
Initial release20122007201620181989 info1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL
Current release17030.916.3, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageCJavaJavaC
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Unix
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnooptionalyesyes
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.noyesnoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.
Secondary indexesrestrictedyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardnononoyes infostandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APILDAPJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.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
All languages with LDAP bindingsGroovy
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonnonoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infocell divisionyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasepartitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensions
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonovia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnonoyes infoedges in graphyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDACID
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.yesyesyesno
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)LDAP bind authenticationUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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