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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. Blueflood vs. CouchDB vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org

blueflood.io

couchdb.apache.org

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Rackspace

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

8Kdata

Initial release

2012

2013

2005

2016

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

3.3.3, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate 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 single document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users and roles

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