DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. MarkLogic vs. Sadas Engine vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. MarkLogic vs. Sadas Engine vs. SiriDB

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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

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
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Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	5.18
Rank	#63	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.datomic.com

www.progress.com/marklogic

www.sadasengine.com

siridb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.datomic.com

www.progress.com/marklogic/documentation

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cognitect

MarkLogic Corp.

SADAS s.r.l.

Cesbit

Initial release

2012

2001

2006

2017

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

11.0, December 2022

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

MIT License

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

SQL92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

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

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

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, with Range Indexes

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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