DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. LokiJS vs. OpenEdge vs. RRDtool vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. LokiJS vs. OpenEdge vs. RRDtool vs. Yaacomo

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Name

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
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Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
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Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.progress.com/openedge

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Progress Software Corporation

Tobias Oetiker

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2012

2014

1984

1999

2009

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

hosted

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

in-process shared library
Pipes

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

JavaScript

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

none

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

none

Immediate Consistency

none

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 operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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