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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. MonetDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	22.92
Rank	#29	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	2.00
Rank	#124	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#260	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.monetdb.org

www.transaction.de/en/solutions/transbase-resource-optimized-high-performance-database

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

www.transaction.de/en/transbase-inside

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

MonetDB BV

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

2004

1987

Current release

Oct2020-SP1, November 2020

Transbase 8.4, September 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
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 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

Column-store In-memory optimized GeoSpatial support JSON document support
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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

Analytical database, Data warehouse, OLAP Data mining Scientific database
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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

Free and open-source software, Mozilla Public License 2.0 Commercial support available
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