DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Coveo vs. Datomic vs. RethinkDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Coveo vs. Datomic vs. RethinkDB vs. RocksDB

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Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.coveo.com

docs.datomic.com

rethinkdb.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Coveo

Cognitect

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2009

2013

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Clojure
Java

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

yes

By using transaction functions

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

range based

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

yes

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

yes

users and table-level permissions

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