DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Badger vs. EsgynDB vs. KeyDB vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Badger vs. EsgynDB vs. KeyDB 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.

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.88
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Score	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#229	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

docs.keydb.dev

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

DGraph Labs

Esgyn

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2012

2017

2015

2019

2009

Current release

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

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++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

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

Java Stored Procedures

Lua

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control and ACL

yes

users and table-level permissions

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