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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Immudb

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.31
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.immudb.io

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Codenotary

Initial release

2012

2010

2020

Current release

1.2.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like syntax

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate 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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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 rights for users can be defined per database

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