DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. EXASOL vs. Teradata vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. EXASOL vs. Teradata vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.bigobject.io

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.teradata.com

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

BigObject, Inc.

Exasol

Teradata

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

2015

2000

1984

2011

Current release

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

hosted
Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

.Net

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Lua

user defined functions

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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