DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. MaxDB vs. OpenEdge vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. MaxDB vs. OpenEdge vs. Realm

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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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.datomic.com

maxdb.sap.com

www.progress.com/openedge

realm.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.datomic.com

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

realm.io/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cognitect

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

Progress Software Corporation

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2012

1984

2014

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

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-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
Java

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

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

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups

yes

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