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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. Heroic vs. Newts

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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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.datomic.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.datomic.com

spotify.github.io/heroic

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cognitect

Spotify

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2012

2014

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
Java

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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