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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. PieCloudDB vs. Prometheus

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Widely used in-process key-value store

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

www.openpie.com

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

OpenPie

Initial release

2012

1994

2015

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

by Federation

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

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

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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