DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. GridDB vs. Lovefield vs. OpenQM vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. GridDB vs. Lovefield vs. OpenQM vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.95
Rank	#128	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

griddb.net

google.github.io/lovefield

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.griddb.net

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Toshiba Corporation

Google

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2013

2014

1993

2012

Current release

5.1, August 2022

2.1.12, February 2017

3.4-12

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

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

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

ACID at container level

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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Specific characteristics

GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages

1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customers

Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metrics

GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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