DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. PouchDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. PouchDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. ToroDB

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

A RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena framework

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

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

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

pouchdb.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Apache Software Foundation

Teradata

8Kdata

Initial release

2012

2000

2012

2005

2016

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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.

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

View functions in JavaScript

R packages

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

TDB Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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 control via Jena Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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