DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigchainDB vs. Sphinx vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigchainDB vs. Sphinx vs. Sqrrl

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Name

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

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been 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

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

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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	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

www.bigchaindb.com

sphinxsearch.com

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Atos Convergence Creators

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2016

2001

2012

Current release

1703

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

LDAP

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages with LDAP bindings

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

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

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

none

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

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

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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