DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Cachelot.io vs. CockroachDB vs. Dgraph vs. H2GIS

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Cachelot.io vs. CockroachDB vs. Dgraph vs. H2GIS

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

In-memory caching system

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Spatial extension of H2

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	5.73
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Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

cachelot.io

www.cockroachlabs.com

dgraph.io

www.h2gis.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

dgraph.io/docs

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cockroach Labs

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

CNRS

Initial release

2012

2015

2016

2013

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

dynamic schema

schema-free

yes

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, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Memcached protocol

JDBC

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

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

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

based on H2

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Role-based access control

Planned for future releases

yes

based on H2

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