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DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. EXASOL vs. Oracle Coherence vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. EXASOL vs. Oracle Coherence vs. PostGIS

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Oracles in-memory data grid solutionSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSKey-value storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score17.94
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftbigobject.iowww.exasol.comwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencepostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdocs.bigobject.iowww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencepostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)BigObject, Inc.ExasolOracle
Initial release20122015200020072005
Current release14.1, August 20233.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
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 indexesrestrictedyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PythonLuauser defined functionsnouser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesyes infoLive Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyes, with selectable consistency levelyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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