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

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. atoti vs. Coveo vs. Informix 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.

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

A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things data

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

Primary database model

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDB

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#243	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.11
Rank	#118	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	17.12
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

atoti.io

www.coveo.com

www.ibm.com/products/informix

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.atoti.io

docs.coveo.com

informix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G/welcomeIfxServers.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

ActiveViam

Coveo

IBM, HCL Technologies

Effective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.

Mireo

Initial release

2012

1984

2020

Current release

14.10.FC5, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++ and Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

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

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes

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)

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
JSON API

MongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

yes

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

ACID

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

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

Users with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controls

yes

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