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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Databricks vs. Kinetica vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

The Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	81.08
Rank	#15	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.databricks.com

www.kinetica.com

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.databricks.com

docs.kinetica.com

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Databricks

Kinetica

Percona

Initial release

2012

2013

2012

2015

Current release

7.1, August 2021

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

with Databricks SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Python
R
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions and aggregates

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Access rights for users and roles

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