DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RDFox vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RDFox vs. Snowflake

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore 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 multi-model DBMS and application server

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.datomic.com

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.datomic.com

docs.intersystems.com

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cognitect

InterSystems

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

1997

2017

2014

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

2018.1.4, May 2020

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

RDF schemas

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

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
Java

C#
C++
Java

C
Java

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

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

replication via a shared file system

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Roles, resources, and access types

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

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