DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. BigchainDB vs. InfluxDB vs. LokiJS vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BigchainDB vs. InfluxDB vs. LokiJS vs. RocksDB

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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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.bigchaindb.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2016

2013

2014

2013

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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 views

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

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JavaScript API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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 single collection possible

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

simple rights management via user accounts

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