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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Badger vs. BoltDB vs. FoundationDB vs. RocksDB

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.An embedded key-value store for Go.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score16.88
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score3.41
Rank#86  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftgithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgergithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbrocksdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerapple.github.io/­foundationdbgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)DGraph LabsFoundationDBFacebook, Inc.
Initial release20122017201320132013
Current release6.2.28, November 20209.2.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCGoGoC++C++
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonono infosome layers support typingno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesrestrictednononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardnonosupported in specific SQL layer onlyno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGoGo.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonnonoin SQL-layer onlyno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenoneyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynonenoneLinearizable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnonoin SQL-layer onlyno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyesACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnononono

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