DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. PouchDB vs. STSdb vs. SwayDB vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. PouchDB vs. STSdb vs. SwayDB 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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

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

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

swaydb.simer.au

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

STS Soft SC

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2012

2011

2018

2017

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

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

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

.NET Client API

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

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

JavaScript

C#
Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C++
Java

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

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

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

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

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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