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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BoltDB vs. Kinetica vs. Snowflake vs. WakandaDB

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsAn embedded key-value store for Go.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score20.63
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#237  Overall
#34  Key-value stores
Score0.74
Rank#229  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score125.38
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#374  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.kinetica.comwww.snowflake.comwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdocs.kinetica.comdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)KineticaSnowflake Computing Inc.Wakanda SAS
Initial release20122013201220142012
Current release7.1, August 20212.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageCGoC, C++C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesrestrictednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGoC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsyes
Triggersnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSource-replica replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyes

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