DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. atoti vs. ClickHouse vs. Coveo vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. atoti vs. ClickHouse vs. Coveo vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.61
Rank	#243	Overall
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Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	2.11
Rank	#118	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

atoti.io

clickhouse.com

www.coveo.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.atoti.io

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.coveo.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

ActiveViam

Clickhouse Inc.

Coveo

Mireo

Initial release

2012

2016

2012

2020

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

key based and custom

yes

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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 and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

yes

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