DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. atoti vs. Datomic vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. atoti vs. Datomic vs. Quasardb

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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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

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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	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

atoti.io

www.datomic.com

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.atoti.io

docs.datomic.com

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

ActiveViam

Cognitect

quasardb

Initial release

2012

2009

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Python

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

by using LevelDB

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

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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