DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. MaxDB vs. NSDb vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. MaxDB vs. NSDb vs. SWC-DB

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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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.datomic.com

maxdb.sap.com

nsdb.io

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.datomic.com

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cognitect

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2012

1984

2017

2020

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
Java

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Java
Scala

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

Using Apache Lucene

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

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