DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. SWC-DB vs. TimescaleDB vs. Transbase vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. SWC-DB vs. TimescaleDB vs. Transbase vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	4.46
Rank	#71	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.timescale.com

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

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.timescale.com

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

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Alex Kashirin

Timescale

Transaction Software GmbH

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2020

2017

1987

2012

Current release

0.5, April 2021

2.15.0, May 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

Source-replica replication

none

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

yes

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