DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. Machbase Neo vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. Machbase Neo vs. ObjectBox

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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

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
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Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
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Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

machbase.com

objectbox.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

spotify.github.io/heroic

machbase.com/dbms

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Spotify

Machbase

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2012

2016

2014

2013

2017

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

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

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

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

selectable replication factor

online/offline synchronization between client and server

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

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

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

simple password-based access control

yes

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