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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. etcd vs. GridGain vs. IBM Cloudant

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A distributed reliable key-value store

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	7.03
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.gridgain.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

GridGain Systems, Inc.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2012

2007

2010

Current release

3.4, August 2019

GridGain 8.5.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Linux
OS X
Solaris
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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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