DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Pinot vs. Ingres vs. MarkLogic vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Pinot vs. Ingres vs. MarkLogic vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

Well established RDBMS

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
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Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	5.92
Rank	#58	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

pinot.apache.org

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.marklogic.com

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.pinot.apache.org

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.marklogic.com

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Actian Corporation

MarkLogic Corp.

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2012

2015

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2001

2006

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

11.2, May 2022

11.0, December 2022

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Ingres Replicator

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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