DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Databricks vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Databricks vs. Snowflake

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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.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	14.21
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	87.68
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	147.36
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.databricks.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.databricks.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Databricks

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

2014

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Python
R
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions and aggregates

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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