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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. EsgynDB vs. Kingbase vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#258	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.esgyn.cn

www.kingbase.com.cn

rockset.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Esgyn

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Rockset

Initial release

2012

2015

1999

2019

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C and Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

yes

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

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 and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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