DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. IRONdb vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Quasardb vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. IRONdb vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Quasardb vs. Trafodion

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

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

quasar.ai

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

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

doc.quasar.ai/master

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Circonus LLC.

Oracle

quasardb

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2012

2017

2011

2009

2014

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

24.1, May 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

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

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

optional

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes, in Lua

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

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

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

off heap cache

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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