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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. FoundationDB vs. Graphite vs. SQLite vs. SwayDB

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score15.10
Rank#38  Overall
#23  Relational DBMS
Score0.98
Rank#186  Overall
#32  Document stores
#27  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score5.00
Rank#63  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score101.91
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.sqlite.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftapple.github.io/­foundationdbgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)FoundationDBChris DavisDwayne Richard HippSimer Plaha
Initial release20122013200620002018
Current release6.2.28, November 20203.46.1  (13 August 2024), August 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCC++PythonCScala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
server-less
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyes infodynamic column typesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingNumeric data onlyyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.no
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesrestrictednonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardsupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonin SQL-layer onlynonono
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemin SQL-layer onlynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnononono

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