DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. atoti vs. Datomic vs. OceanBase vs. SingleStore

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. atoti vs. Datomic vs. OceanBase vs. SingleStore

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.56
Rank	#245	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#147	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.atoti.io

docs.datomic.com

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

ActiveViam

Cognitect

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2012

2010

2013

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

4.3.0, April 2024

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Commercial license available

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Clojure

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

64 bit version required

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

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
Java

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Python

yes

Transaction Functions

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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