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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. HBase vs. JaguarDB vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

hbase.apache.org

www.jaguardb.com

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

DataJaguar, Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2012

2008

2015

2022

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

3.3 July 2023

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

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

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual 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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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 Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

rights management via user accounts

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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