DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Ehcache vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Ehcache vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.ehcache.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.ehcache.org/documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Embarcadero

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2012

2009

1984

2012

2014

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JCache

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Interbase Change Views

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

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

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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 based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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