DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Geode vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Geode vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Primary database model

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Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	5.04
Rank	#71	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	4.92
Rank	#73	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

geode.apache.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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.

Embarcadero

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2002

1984

2012

Current release

1.1, February 2017

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

Interbase Change Views

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

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

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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