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DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. BaseX vs. InfinityDB vs. IRONdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BaseX vs. InfinityDB vs. IRONdb

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity
Primary database modelRelational DBMSNative XML DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score15.25
Rank#38  Overall
#23  Relational DBMS
Score1.56
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftbasex.orgboilerbay.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdocs.basex.orgboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)BaseX GmbHBoiler Bay Inc.Circonus LLC.
Initial release2012200720022017
Current release11.2, August 20244.0V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageCJavaJavaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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.nonono
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardnonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Java.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonyesnoyes, in Lua
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDmultiple readers, single writerACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnono

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