DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. searchxml vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. searchxml vs. Vitess

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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

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.82
Rank	#209	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.searchxml.net/category/products

vitess.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

vitess.io/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

InterSystems

informationpartners gmbh

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2012

2018

2015

2013

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

1.0

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

on the application server

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

yes

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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