DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Kinetica vs. OpenTSDB vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Kinetica vs. OpenTSDB vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.kinetica.com

opentsdb.net

siridb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.kinetica.com

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Kinetica

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Cesbit

Initial release

2014

2012

2011

2017

Current release

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

Numeric data

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

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Telnet API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

simple rights management via user accounts

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