DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. SQL.JS vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. SQL.JS vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#248	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

sql.js.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2011

Current release

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

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

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

JavaScript

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

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

yes

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

except by serializing a db to a file

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

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