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DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. NSDb vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. NSDb vs. SQream DB

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityGlobally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database serviceScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetesa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.63
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score2.08
Rank#132  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score30.39
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Score0.07
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.72
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.datomic.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-dbnsdb.iosqream.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdocs.datomic.comlearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-dbnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)CognitectMicrosoftSQream Technologies
Initial release20122012201420172017
Current release1.0.6735, June 20232022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageCJava, ClojureJava, ScalaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoJSON typesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by defaultall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIDocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCClojure
Java
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
Java
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonyes infoTransaction FunctionsJavaScriptnouser defined functions in Python
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsJavaScriptno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partitionnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes inforecommended only for testing and development
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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