DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. FatDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. MaxDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. FatDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. MaxDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.gigaspaces.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

maxdb.sap.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

FatCloud

Gigaspaces Technologies

InterSystems

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

Initial release

2012

2000

2018

1984

Current release

15.5, September 2020

2023.3, June 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

via applications

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Role-based access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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