DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. CrateDB vs. Oracle vs. OrigoDB vs. Percona Server for MySQL

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. CrateDB vs. Oracle vs. OrigoDB vs. Percona Server for MySQL

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Distributed Database based on Lucene

Widely used RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.73
Rank	#224	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#8	Vector DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.03
Rank	#122	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

cratedb.com

www.oracle.com/database

origodb.com

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

cratedb.com/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database

origodb.com/docs

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Crate

Oracle

Robert Friberg et al

Percona

Initial release

2012

2013

1980

2009

under the name LiveDB

2008

Current release

23c, September 2023

8.0.36-28, 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.NET
Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions (Javascript)

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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Key customers

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