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

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score16.88
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftbigobject.iowww.h2database.comquasar.airockset.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdocs.bigobject.iowww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)BigObject, Inc.Thomas MuellerquasardbRockset
Initial release20122015200520092019
Current release2.2.220, July 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageCJavaC++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binarydynamic typing
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.nonononono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesyesyes infowith tagsall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like query languageRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJava.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PythonLuaJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding infoconsistent hashingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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