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DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. GBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. GBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SQream DB

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score16.88
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.gbase.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantsqream.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)General Data Technology Co., Ltd.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014SQream Technologies
Initial release2012200420102017
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC, Java, PythonErlangC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardStandard with numerous extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC#C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonuser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functions in Python
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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