DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Kinetica vs. Snowflake vs. SpaceTime vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Kinetica vs. Snowflake vs. SpaceTime vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.kinetica.com

www.snowflake.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.kinetica.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

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

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Kinetica

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Mireo

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2012

2014

2020

2003

Current release

7.1, August 2021

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

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

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Fixed-grid hypercubes

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

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

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