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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BigchainDB vs. PouchDB vs. Typesense

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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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Search engine

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#210	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.bigchaindb.com

pouchdb.com

typesense.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

pouchdb.com/guides

typesense.org/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2016

2012

2015

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

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

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

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 views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

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

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

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