DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Hypertable vs. Infobright vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Hypertable vs. Infobright vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Hypertable Inc.

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Oracle

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2012

2009

2005

2011

2022

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

24.1, May 2024

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

only exact value or prefix value scans

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor on file system level

Source-replica replication

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Access rights for users and roles

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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