DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. BigchainDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BigchainDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. SwayDB

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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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.bigchaindb.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.jaguardb.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

DataJaguar, Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2012

2016

2010

2015

2018

Current release

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Erlang

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

rights management via user accounts

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