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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. Cachelot.io vs. Ehcache vs. OrientDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

In-memory caching system

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.bigobject.io

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

BigObject, Inc.

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2012

2015

2009

2010

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

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)

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Memcached protocol

JCache

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Lua

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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