DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SWC-DB

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Search engine

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.bigchaindb.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Atos Convergence Creators

Microsoft

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2012

2016

2015

2020

Current release

1703

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

LDAP

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages with LDAP bindings

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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 execution of specific operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

LDAP bind authentication

yes

using Azure authentication

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