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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. Interbase vs. Memcached

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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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.datomic.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.memcached.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.datomic.com

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cognitect

Embarcadero

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Initial release

2012

1984

2003

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

1.6.27, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
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

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
Java

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

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
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

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

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

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

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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