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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Kinetica vs. PostGIS vs. Snowflake vs. WakandaDB

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score20.63
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#229  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score24.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score125.38
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#374  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.kinetica.compostgis.netwww.snowflake.comwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdocs.kinetica.compostgis.net/­documentationdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)KineticaSnowflake Computing Inc.Wakanda SAS
Initial release20122012200520142012
Current release7.1, August 20213.4.2, February 20242.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageCC, C++CC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyesno
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonuser defined functionsuser defined functionsuser defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
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.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes infobased on PostgreSQLUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyes

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