DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Axibase vs. JSqlDb vs. Oracle vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Axibase vs. JSqlDb vs. Oracle vs. YottaDB

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Widely used RDBMS

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.oracle.com/database

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.oracle.com/en/database

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Axibase Corporation

Konrad von Backstrom

Oracle

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2012

2013

2018

1980

2001

Current release

15585

0.8, December 2018

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

functions in JavaScript

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate 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

isolation level can be parameterized

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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