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DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. CouchDB vs. GeoMesa

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. CouchDB vs. GeoMesa

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
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Score14.12
Rank#38  Overall
#23  Relational DBMS
Score7.81
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.73
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftcouchdb.apache.orgwww.geomesa.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerCCRi and others
Initial release201220052014
Current release3.3.3, December 20235.0.1, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageCErlangScala
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesrestrictedyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PythonView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0depending on storage layer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
depending on storage layer
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencydepending on storage layer
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnodepending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storage

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