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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. CockroachDB vs. Graph Engine vs. Valentina Server

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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.

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
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Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.graphengine.io

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cockroach Labs

Microsoft

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2012

2015

2010

1999

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

.NET

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

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

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

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

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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