DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Blueflood vs. EXASOL vs. JaguarDB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Blueflood vs. EXASOL vs. JaguarDB vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

blueflood.io

www.exasol.com

www.jaguardb.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.exasol.com/resources

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Rackspace

Exasol

DataJaguar, Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2012

2013

2000

2015

2020

Current release

3.3 July 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

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

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
Lua
Python
R

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

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

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