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DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. H2 vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. H2 vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Yaacomo

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score16.88
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.h2database.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantyaacomo.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Thomas MuellerIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release2012200520102009
Current release2.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageCJavaErlang
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMhostedAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PythonJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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