DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. BigchainDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BigchainDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. PostGIS

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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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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	#71	Relational DBMS

Score	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

postgis.net

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.heavy.ai

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2016

2005

Current release

5.10, January 2022

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate 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 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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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