DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Trino vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Trino vs. YDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#278	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#127	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

trino.io

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

ydb.tech/en/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

IBM

Microsoft

Trino Software Foundation

Yandex

Initial release

2012

2014

2010

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

2019

Current release

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

depending on connected data-source

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Transact SQL

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on connected data-source

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

depending on connected data-source

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

SQL standard access control

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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