DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Badger vs. Datomic vs. ObjectBox vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Badger vs. Datomic vs. ObjectBox 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.

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#325	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	1.76
Rank	#145	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	1.22
Rank	#172	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#106	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.datomic.com

objectbox.io

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

docs.datomic.com

docs.objectbox.io

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

DGraph Labs

Cognitect

ObjectBox Limited

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2012

2017

2012

2017

2009

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
Java

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

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

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

online/offline synchronization between client and server

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

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

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

users and table-level permissions

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