DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. H2 vs. IRONdb vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. H2 vs. IRONdb vs. Rockset

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it 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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigobject.io

www.h2database.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

rockset.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.bigobject.io

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

BigObject, Inc.

Thomas Mueller

Circonus LLC.

Rockset

Initial release

2012

2015

2005

2017

2019

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

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)

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Lua

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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