DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. BigchainDB vs. Drizzle vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BigchainDB vs. Drizzle vs. Riak KV

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.bigchaindb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2012

2016

2008

2009

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PHP

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Erlang

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes, using Riak Security

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