DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. ObjectBox vs. SpaceTime vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. ObjectBox vs. SpaceTime vs. Teradata

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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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigobject.io

objectbox.io

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.bigobject.io

docs.objectbox.io

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

BigObject, Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

Mireo

Teradata

Initial release

2012

2015

2017

2020

1984

Current release

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

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)

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C#
C++
Python

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Lua

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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