Best SQL Databases for IRI DarkShield

Amazon Redshift is preferred by more customers than any other cloud data storage. Redshift powers analytic workloads for Fortune 500 companies and startups, as well as everything in between. Redshift has helped Lyft grow from a startup to multi-billion-dollar enterprises. It's easier than any other data warehouse to gain new insights from all of your data. Redshift allows you to query petabytes (or more) of structured and semi-structured information across your operational database, data warehouse, and data lake using standard SQL. Redshift allows you to save your queries to your S3 database using open formats such as Apache Parquet. This allows you to further analyze other analytics services like Amazon EMR and Amazon Athena. Redshift is the fastest cloud data warehouse in the world and it gets faster each year. The new RA3 instances can be used for performance-intensive workloads to achieve up to 3x the performance compared to any cloud data warehouse.

SAP HANA is an in-memory database with high performance that accelerates data-driven decision-making and actions. It supports all workloads and provides the most advanced analytics on multi-model data on premise and in cloud.

IBM Db2®, a family of hybrid data management tools, offers a complete suite AI-empowered capabilities to help you manage structured and unstructured data both on premises and in private and public clouds. Db2 is built upon an intelligent common SQL engine that allows for flexibility and scalability.

Oracle database products offer customers cost-optimized, high-performance versions Oracle Database, the world's most popular converged, multi-model database management software. They also include in-memory NoSQL and MySQL databases. Oracle Autonomous Database is available on-premises via Oracle Cloud@Customer and in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. It allows customers to simplify relational databases environments and reduce management burdens. Oracle Autonomous Database reduces the complexity of operating and protecting Oracle Database, while delivering the highest levels performance, scalability and availability to customers. Oracle Database can also be deployed on-premises if customers have network latency and data residency concerns. Customers who depend on Oracle database versions for their applications have full control over which versions they use and when they change.