DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Axibase vs. BigchainDB vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Axibase vs. BigchainDB vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

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

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	5.80
Rank	#60	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.bigchaindb.com

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.datastax.com

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Axibase Corporation

DataStax

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2012

2013

2016

2011

1998

Current release

15585

6.8, April 2020

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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