DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. HyperSQL vs. Interbase

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. HyperSQL vs. Interbase

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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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Primary database model

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

hsqldb.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

spotify.github.io/heroic

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Spotify

Embarcadero

Initial release

2012

2016

2014

2001

1984

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

via Elasticsearch

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

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java, SQL

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

none

Interbase Change Views

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

Multiversion concurreny control

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

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