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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. HarperDB vs. MonetDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.harperdb.io

www.monetdb.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.harperdb.io/docs

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

HarperDB

MonetDB BV

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

2017

2004

1987

Current release

3.1, August 2021

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Node.js

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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 for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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