DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. EventStoreDB vs. KairosDB vs. Lovefield vs. OrientDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. EventStoreDB vs. KairosDB vs. Lovefield vs. OrientDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

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Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#88	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.eventstore.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

google.github.io/lovefield

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

developers.eventstore.com

kairosdb.github.io

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Event Store Limited

Google

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2012

2013

2014

2010

Current release

21.2, February 2021

1.2.2, November 2018

2.1.12, February 2017

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java, Javascript

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

relationship in graphs

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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