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DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Greenplum vs. HEAVY.AI vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Greenplum vs. HEAVY.AI vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Prometheus

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA multi-model DBMS and application serverOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMSDocument store
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Score17.94
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftgreenplum.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.intersystems.com/­products/­cacheprometheus.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdocs.greenplum.orgdocs.heavy.aidocs.intersystems.comprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Pivotal Software Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.InterSystems
Initial release20122005201619972015
Current release7.0.0, September 20235.10, January 20222018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCC++ and CUDAGo
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesdepending on used data modelyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesNumeric data only
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.noyes infosince Version 4.2noyesno infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardyesyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
Java
Perl
Python
R
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C#
C++
Java
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonyesnoyesno
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoRound robinnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno

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