DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. EXASOL vs. mSQL vs. TerarkDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. EXASOL vs. mSQL vs. TerarkDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
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Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.exasol.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.exasol.com/resources

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Exasol

Hughes Technologies

ByteDance, originally Terark

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

2000

1994

2016

1987

Current release

4.4, October 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

restricted open source version available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

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

FreeBSD
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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

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

yes

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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