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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. EXASOL vs. PostGIS vs. searchxml

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  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.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score17.94
Rank#34  Overall
#21  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
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftbigobject.iowww.exasol.compostgis.netwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdocs.bigobject.iowww.exasol.com/­resourcespostgis.net/­documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)BigObject, Inc.Exasolinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20122015200020052015
Current release3.4.2, February 20241.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCCC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
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.nononoyesyes
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJava
Lua
Python
R
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PythonLuauser defined functionsuser defined functionsyes infoon the application server
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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