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DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. GBase vs. PostgreSQL vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. GBase vs. PostgreSQL vs. SAP HANA

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonPostgreSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  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 durabilityWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Widely used open source RDBMS infoDeveloped as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQLIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infowith object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS infowith pgvector extension
Document store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.07
Rank#38  Overall
#23  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#145  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score654.34
Rank#4  Overall
#4  Relational DBMS
Score39.10
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.datomic.comwww.gbase.cnwww.postgresql.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­hana.html
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdocs.datomic.comwww.postgresql.org/­docshelp.sap.com/­hana
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)CognitectGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.PostgreSQL Global Development Group infowww.postgresql.org/­developerSAP
Initial release2012201220041989 info1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL2010
Current release1.0.7180, July 2024GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c16.4, August 20242.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono infoalso available as a cloud based service
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Implementation languageCJava, ClojureC, Java, PythonC
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinuxFreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Appliance or cloud-service
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.no
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardnoStandard with numerous extensionsyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCClojure
Java
C#.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonyes infoTransaction Functionsuser defined functionsuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.SQLScript, R
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peershorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningpartitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hashyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
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)yesyesyes
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 developmentnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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