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

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

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  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.Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score15.25
Rank#38  Overall
#23  Relational DBMS
Score7.46
Rank#51  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score72.95
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score7.56
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftcouchdb.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzapouchdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerMicrosoftIBMApache Software Foundation
Initial release20122005201020002012
Current release3.3.3, December 2023V127.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCErlangC++JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux infoincluded in applianceserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesrestrictedyes infovia viewsyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript 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
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PythonView functions in JavaScriptTransact SQLyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0ShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with always 3 replicas availableSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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