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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Badger vs. Bangdb vs. PouchDB vs. RethinkDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

bangdb.com

pouchdb.com

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

docs.bangdb.com

pouchdb.com/guides

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

DGraph Labs

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Apache Software Foundation

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2012

2017

2012

2009

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

7.1.1, June 2019

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL like support with command line tool

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

JavaScript

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

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

none

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency

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 single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes (enterprise version only)

yes

users and table-level permissions

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