DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Phoenix vs. eXtremeDB vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Phoenix vs. eXtremeDB vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Rank	#34	Overall
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Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

phoenix.apache.org

www.mcobject.com

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

phoenix.apache.org

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

McObject

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2014

2001

2012

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

8.2, 2021

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

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

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

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