DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. MaxDB vs. Realm vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. MaxDB vs. Realm vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.32
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Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

maxdb.sap.com

realm.io

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

realm.io/docs

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

1984

2014

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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