DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Galaxybase vs. Geode vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Galaxybase vs. Geode vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

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Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

galaxybase.com

geode.apache.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

geode.apache.org/docs

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2012

2017

2002

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

1.1, February 2017

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language (OQL)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
Python

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined procedures and functions

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Relationships in graphs

depending on model

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

Role-based access control

Access rights per client and object definable

Role based authorization

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