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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. Machbase Neo vs. Rockset

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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

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

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

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigobject.io

machbase.com

rockset.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.bigobject.io

machbase.com/dbms

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

BigObject, Inc.

Machbase

Rockset

Initial release

2012

2015

2013

2019

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

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)

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

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

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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

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