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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. EXASOL vs. Google BigQuery vs. NSDb

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score19.03
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score1.76
Rank#145  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#120  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score61.90
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.datomic.comwww.exasol.comcloud.google.com/­bigquerynsdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdocs.datomic.comwww.exasol.com/­resourcescloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docsnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)CognitectExasolGoogle
Initial release20122012200020102017
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageCJava, ClojureJava, Scala
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesyesnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardnoyesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCClojure
Java
Java
Lua
Python
R
.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonyes infoTransaction Functionsuser defined functionsuser defined functions infoin JavaScriptno
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peers
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying datano
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesUsing Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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