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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Rockset vs. SwayDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
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Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

rockset.com

swaydb.simer.au

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.rockset.com

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Rockset

Simer Plaha

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2019

2018

2019

Current release

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

restricted

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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