DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Derby vs. etcd vs. eXtremeDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Derby vs. etcd vs. eXtremeDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A distributed reliable key-value store

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	7.03
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	0.80
Rank	#214	Overall
	#99	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

db.apache.org/derby

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.mcobject.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

McObject

Initial release

2012

1997

2001

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

3.4, August 2019

8.2, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, watching key changes

yes

by defining events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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

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