DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. IBM Db2 vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. IBM Db2 vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Snowflake

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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

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.datomic.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.datomic.com

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cognitect

IBM

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

1983

host version

2015

2014

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

12.1, October 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

hosted

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
Java

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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