DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. Graphite vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. Graphite vs. Oracle Coherence

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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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.datomic.com

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.datomic.com

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cognitect

Chris Davis

Oracle

Initial release

2012

2006

2007

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Python

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Sockets

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

optionally

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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