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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Kingbase vs. Lovefield

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	15.10
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#259	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#302	Overall
	#137	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.kingbase.com.cn

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Google

Initial release

2012

1999

2014

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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