DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Coveo vs. EJDB vs. Fauna vs. Newts

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Coveo vs. EJDB vs. Fauna vs. Newts

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.28
Rank	#114	Overall
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Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
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Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
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Rank	#383	Overall
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Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.coveo.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

fauna.com

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.coveo.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.fauna.com

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Coveo

Softmotions

Fauna, Inc.

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2012

2014

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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.

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

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

Identity management, authentication, and access control

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