DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Firebolt

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Firebolt

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Name

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#134	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.firebolt.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.firebolt.io

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Initial release

2012

2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on storage layer

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

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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