DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. HarperDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. HarperDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	1.23
Rank	#172	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.harperdb.io

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.harperdb.io/docs

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Amazon

HarperDB

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2012

2007

2017

2018

Current release

3.1, August 2021

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Node.js

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

dynamic schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like data manipulation statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Synchronous 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
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

Atomic execution of specific operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles

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