DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Snowflake

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Name

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	153.90
Rank	#6	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Atos Convergence Creators

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2016

2014

Current release

1703

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

LDAP

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages with LDAP bindings

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

LDAP bind authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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