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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. SQLite vs. TerminusDB vs. Transbase vs. Typesense

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Description

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Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.sqlite.org

terminusdb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

typesense.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

typesense.org/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Dwayne Richard Hipp

DataChemist Ltd.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

2000

2018

1987

2015

Current release

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

yes

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Journaling Streams

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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