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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. MonetDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SWC-DB

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Name

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.monetdb.org

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

MonetDB BV

Sybase, SAP

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2012

2004

1993

2020

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
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

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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