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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Faircom DB vs. ObjectBox vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

objectbox.io

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

docs.objectbox.io

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

FairCom Corporation

ObjectBox Limited

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

1979

2017

2012

Current release

V12, November 2020

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

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

Data scheme

yes

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

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
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

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

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

yes

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