DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. CockroachDB vs. Datomic vs. NSDb vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. CockroachDB vs. Datomic vs. NSDb vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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.

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.datomic.com

nsdb.io

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

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

docs.datomic.com

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cockroach Labs

Cognitect

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2012

2015

2012

2017

2020

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

1.0.6735, June 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

Clojure
Java

Java
Scala

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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