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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa vs. LMDB vs. Snowflake

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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Score17.94
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.bigchaindb.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.lmdb.tech/­docdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)CCRi and othersSymasSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20122016201420112014
Current release4.0.5, February 20240.9.32, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageCPythonScalaC
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonnonouser defined functions
Triggersnononono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingdepending on storage layernoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factordepending on storage layernoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layeryesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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