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DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Derby vs. Oracle vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Derby vs. Oracle vs. Tigris

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonApache Derby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Widely used RDBMSA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS infosince Oracle 23
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.70
Rank#36  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score3.04
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score1226.57
Rank#1  Overall
#1  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#50  Document stores
#53  Key-value stores
#23  Search engines
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftdb.apache.org/­derbywww.oracle.com/­databasewww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­databasewww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Apache Software FoundationOracleTigris Data, Inc.
Initial release2012199719802022
Current release10.17.1.0, November 202323c, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCJavaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infoSchemaless in JSON and XML columnsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJavaC
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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PythonJava Stored ProceduresPL/SQL infoalso stored procedures in Java possibleno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocan be realized in PL/SQL
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoisolation level can be parameterizedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, using FoundationDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoVersion 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles

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