DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. ArangoDB vs. BigchainDB vs. PouchDB vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. ArangoDB vs. BigchainDB vs. PouchDB vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Native multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.

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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	3.32
Rank	#90	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.arangodb.com

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

pouchdb.com/guides

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Social network pages

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

ArangoDB Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

SenX

Initial release

2012

2016

2012

2015

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Python

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

since version 2.0

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

configurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

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

yes

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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