DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. Brytlyt vs. Drizzle vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. Brytlyt vs. Drizzle vs. IBM Cloudant

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigobject.io

brytlyt.io

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.bigobject.io

docs.brytlyt.io

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

BigObject, Inc.

Brytlyt

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2012

2015

2016

2008

2010

Current release

5.0, August 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Java
PHP

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Lua

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source 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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Optimistic locking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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