DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. Interbase vs. LevelDB vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. Interbase vs. LevelDB vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be 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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series 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	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.datomic.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/google/leveldb

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.datomic.com

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cognitect

Embarcadero

Google

TempoIQ

Initial release

2012

1984

2011

2012

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

1.23, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Illumos
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.

export as XML data possible

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
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Interbase Change Views

none

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

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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

simple authentication-based access control

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