DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Impala vs. Oracle vs. TerminusDB vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Impala vs. Oracle vs. TerminusDB vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Widely used RDBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS info

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store info

with Oracle Spatial and Graph

Document store
RDF store

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Score	21.58
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#36	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1346.68
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#334	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	1.58
Rank	#125	Overall
	#61	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.cloudera.com/products/open-source/apache-hadoop/impala.html

www.oracle.com/database

terminusdb.com

www.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.cloudera.com/documentation/enterprise/latest/topics/impala.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database

terminusdb.com/docs

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cloudera

Oracle

DataChemist Ltd.

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2012

2013

1980

2018

2003

Current release

3.3.0, August 2019

19c, February 2019

1.0, 2018

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source info

Apache Version 2

commercial info

restricted free version is available

Open Source info

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

user defined functions info

in Python

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning info

with the optional Oracle Partitioning

Graph Partitioning

horizontal partitioning info

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Master-master replication
Master-slave replication

Journaling Streams

Master-master replication
Master-slave replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts info

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

planned for next version

User concepts info

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles info

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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