DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. EJDB vs. GridDB vs. Netezza

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. EJDB vs. GridDB vs. Netezza

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	2.09
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.59
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

griddb.net

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

docs.griddb.net

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Softmotions

Toshiba Corporation

IBM

Initial release

2012

2013

2000

Current release

5.1, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

Linux

included in appliance

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

in-process shared library

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID at container level

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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Specific characteristics

GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages

1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customers

Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metrics

GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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