DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. HyperSQL vs. Rockset vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. HyperSQL vs. Rockset vs. STSdb

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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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigobject.io

hsqldb.org

rockset.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.bigobject.io

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

BigObject, Inc.

Rockset

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2015

2001

2019

2011

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

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

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Lua

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

none

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

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

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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