DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. NSDb vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. NSDb vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

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

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

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.datomic.com

nsdb.io

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.datomic.com

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cognitect

Percona

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2012

2017

2015

2009

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
Java

Java
Scala

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Transaction Functions

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

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

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate 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)

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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