DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Interbase vs. TimesTen vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Interbase vs. TimesTen vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

IBM

Embarcadero

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

SenX

Initial release

2012

2014

1984

1998

2015

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

PL/SQL

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Interbase Change Views

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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