DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. AntDB vs. BigObject vs. Oracle vs. SingleStore

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. AntDB vs. BigObject vs. Oracle vs. SingleStore

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with Oracle

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Widely used RDBMS

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#303	Overall
	#137	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

bigobject.io

www.oracle.com/database

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.bigobject.io

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.singlestore.com

Social network pages

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

BigObject, Inc.

Oracle

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2012

2015

1980

2013

Current release

23c, September 2023

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL2016 compliant

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Lua

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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SingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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Typical application scenarios

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Driving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Key customers

China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Aeon Life, China Mobile Tietong, CITIC...
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Market metrics

More than 1 billion subscribers in 24 provinces across China are served by AntDB...
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Customers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing models

Certificates and licenses CMMI5 Certificate licensed by CMMI Institute IT Product...
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