DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. CouchDB vs. Dgraph vs. H2GIS vs. jBASE

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. CouchDB vs. Dgraph vs. H2GIS vs. jBASE

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Spatial extension of H2

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Relational DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

couchdb.apache.org

dgraph.io

www.h2gis.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

dgraph.io/docs

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

CNRS

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

2012

2005

2016

2013

1991

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

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

Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

View functions in JavaScript

yes

based on H2

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

based on H2

yes

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

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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 can be defined per database

Planned for future releases

yes

based on H2

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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