DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon Redshift vs. KairosDB vs. Qdrant vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon Redshift vs. KairosDB vs. Qdrant vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	7.57
Rank	#51	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/CHAP_Aurora.html

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

kairosdb.github.io

qdrant.tech/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Qdrant

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

2012

2013

2021

2014

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

yes

restricted

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Collection-level replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

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

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

simple password-based access control

Key-based authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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