DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. HBase vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. HBase vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

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Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#145	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	31.25
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.datomic.com

hbase.apache.org

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.datomic.com

hbase.apache.org/book.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cognitect

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2012

2008

2009

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
Java

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

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

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

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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