DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Geode vs. PouchDB vs. SingleStore vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Geode vs. PouchDB vs. SingleStore vs. Trino

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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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column 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	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	4.99
Rank	#65	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

geode.apache.org/docs

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.singlestore.com

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

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.

Apache Software Foundation

SingleStore Inc.

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2002

2012

2013

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

1.1, February 2017

7.1.1, June 2019

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++, Go

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

64 bit version required

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

via views

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

JavaScript

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

yes

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

hash partitioning

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

depending on connected data-source

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 control via users, groups and roles

SQL standard access control

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