DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. atoti vs. Postgres-XL vs. SpaceTime vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. atoti vs. Postgres-XL vs. SpaceTime vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.56
Rank	#245	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

atoti.io

www.postgres-xl.org

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.atoti.io

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

ActiveViam

Mireo

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2020

2000

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
C++
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Python

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

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

yes

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