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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BigchainDB vs. EJDB vs. HBase

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Wide column store

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Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.30
Rank	#294	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	31.25
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

hbase.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

hbase.apache.org/book.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Softmotions

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Initial release

2012

2016

2012

2008

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

server-less

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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