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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Drill vs. Badger vs. IBM Cloudant

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

drill.apache.org

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

drill.apache.org/docs

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

DGraph Labs

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2012

2017

2010

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Depending on the underlying data source

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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