DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Citus vs. PouchDB vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Citus vs. PouchDB vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	2.13
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#351	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.citusdata.com

pouchdb.com

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.citusdata.com

pouchdb.com/guides

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

SenX

Initial release

2012

2010

2012

2015

Current release

8.1, December 2018

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data 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.

yes

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

View functions in JavaScript

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

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

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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