DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. EJDB vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. EJDB vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. Quasardb

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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)

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

origodb.com/docs

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Softmotions

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

quasardb

Initial release

2012

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

2009

Current release

4.4, October 2021

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

integer and binary

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

in-process shared library

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

HTTP API

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++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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