DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Geode vs. Immudb vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Geode vs. Immudb vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	0.31
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

geode.apache.org

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.immudb.io

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

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

Codenotary

STS Soft SC

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2002

2020

2011

2018

Current release

1.1, February 2017

1.2.3, April 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like syntax

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

.NET Client API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate 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

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Access rights per client and object definable

Role-based access control

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