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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BigchainDB vs. OpenQM vs. STSdb vs. Teradata

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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

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.bigchaindb.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

STS Soft SC

Teradata

Initial release

2012

2016

1993

2011

1984

Current release

3.4-12

4.0.8, September 2015

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C#
Java

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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