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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Postgres-XL vs. SingleStore vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	4.02
Rank	#74	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#112	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.postgres-xl.org

www.singlestore.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.singlestore.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

SingleStore Inc.

Rocket Software

Initial release

2012

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2013

1985

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Go

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

Linux

64 bit version required

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

hash partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

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

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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