DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. BigchainDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Hyprcubd vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BigchainDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Hyprcubd vs. TerminusDB

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Name

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.bigchaindb.com

geospock.com

hyprcubd.com (offline)

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

GeoSpock

Hyprcubd, Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2016

2018

Current release

2.0, September 2019

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java, Javascript

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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

temporal, categorical

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

gRPC (https)

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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 journaling

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 rights for users can be defined per table

token access

Role-based access control

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