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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. MonetDB vs. RavenDB vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.monetdb.org

ravendb.net

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

ravendb.net/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

MonetDB BV

Hibernating Rhinos

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2012

2004

2010

2009

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

5.4, July 2022

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux
OS X

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Authorization levels configured per client per database

yes, using Riak Security

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