DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. PouchDB vs. Riak TS vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. PouchDB vs. Riak TS vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

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Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

pouchdb.com

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

pouchdb.com/guides

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

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2012

2015

2017

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

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

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

via views

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes, limited

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

JavaScript

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

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

View functions in JavaScript

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

Role-based access control

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