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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	23.14
Rank	#29	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.28
Rank	#81	Overall
	#14	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

The Linux Foundation info

since July 2017

Initial release

2012

2009

Current release

2.4.0, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source info

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

XML support info

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

community-supported driver
C# info

community-supported driver
C++ info

community-supported driver
Clojure info

community-supported driver
Dart info

community-supported driver
Erlang info

community-supported driver
Go info

community-supported driver
Haskell info

community-supported driver
Java info

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js) info

official driver
Lisp info

community-supported driver
Lua info

community-supported driver
Objective-C info

community-supported driver
Perl info

community-supported driver
PHP info

community-supported driver
Python info

official driver
Ruby info

official driver
Scala info

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

user defined functions info

in Python

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

range based

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts info

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts info

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

users and table-level permissions

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