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

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

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

Graph DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
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Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

newdatabase.com

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

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

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

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Mobiland AG

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2018

2010

2012

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

V12

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

hosted

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

Data scheme

yes

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Transact SQL

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Windows-Profile

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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