DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Hypertable vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Hypertable vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.datomic.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.datomic.com

docs.heavy.ai

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cognitect

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Hypertable Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2012

2016

2009

2008

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

5.10, January 2022

0.9.8.11, March 2016

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

C++ API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Transaction Functions

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

Round robin

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor on file system level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

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

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