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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. EventStoreDB vs. NSDb vs. SurrealDB

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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.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.eventstore.com

nsdb.io

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

developers.eventstore.com

nsdb.io/Architecture

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Event Store Limited

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2012

2017

2022

Current release

21.2, February 2021

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
Scala

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

Using Apache Lucene

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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