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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Badger vs. Cassandra vs. GigaSpaces vs. JaguarDB

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeWide column storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Key-value store
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Graph DBMS
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Score16.88
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score98.83
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftgithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgercassandra.apache.orgwww.gigaspaces.comwww.jaguardb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgercassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlwww.jaguardb.com/­support.html
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)DGraph LabsApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookGigaspaces TechnologiesDataJaguar, Inc.
Initial release20122017200820002015
Current release4.1.3, July 202315.5, September 20203.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCGoJavaJava, C++, .NetC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languages
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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 infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatano
Secondary indexesrestrictednorestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardnoSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)SQL-99 for query and DML statementsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGoC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonnonoyesno
Triggersnonoyesyes, event driven architectureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"ShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDno
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.yesnonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users can be defined per objectRole-based access controlrights management via user accounts
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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