DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. Elasticsearch vs. NSDb vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. Elasticsearch vs. NSDb vs. Trino

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.datomic.com

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

nsdb.io

trino.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.datomic.com

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

nsdb.io/Architecture

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

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Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cognitect

Elastic

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2010

2017

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

8.6, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

Java, Scala

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

all fields are automatically indexed

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
Java

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

Using Apache Lucene

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

Memcached and Redis integration

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

SQL standard access control

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