DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. CouchDB vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. CouchDB vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. PouchDB

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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.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	7.46
Rank	#51	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	3.78
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	72.95
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

couchdb.apache.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

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

Embarcadero

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2005

1984

2010

2012

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

V12

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

via views

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript 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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Transact SQL

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Interbase Change Views

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

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

Eventual 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

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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