DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Doris vs. BigchainDB vs. Geode vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Doris vs. BigchainDB vs. Geode vs. PouchDB

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

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	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
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	#35	Document stores

Score	1.86
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	#24	Key-value stores

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

www.bigchaindb.com

geode.apache.org

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

geode.apache.org/docs

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2017

2016

2002

2012

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

1.1, February 2017

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like query language (OQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
MySQL client

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

Access rights per client and object definable

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