DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Dolt vs. EventStoreDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Dolt vs. EventStoreDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#191	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

www.eventstore.com

www.sequoiadb.com

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.dolthub.com

developers.eventstore.com

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

DoltHub Inc

Event Store Limited

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2018

2012

2013

2014

Current release

21.2, February 2021

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
HTTP REST

proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

currently in alpha release

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

simple password-based access control

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