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DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Drill vs. BigObject vs. EXASOL vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Drill vs. BigObject vs. EXASOL vs. PostGIS

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Spatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score17.94
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftdrill.apache.orgbigobject.iowww.exasol.compostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.bigobject.iowww.exasol.com/­resourcespostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Apache Software FoundationBigObject, Inc.Exasol
Initial release20122012201520002005
Current release1.20.3, January 20233.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesrestrictednoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC++Java
Lua
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonuser defined functionsLuauser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynonenoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDepending on the underlying data sourcenoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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