DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. EsgynDB vs. MonetDB vs. NuoDB vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. EsgynDB vs. MonetDB vs. NuoDB vs. Tkrzw

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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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#319	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	0.99
Rank	#195	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#354	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.esgyn.cn

www.monetdb.org

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Esgyn

MonetDB BV

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2012

2015

2004

2013

2020

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

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++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

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

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

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java Stored Procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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