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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. InfluxDB vs. TerminusDB vs. Tibero

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
RDF store

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Rank	#34	Overall
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Score	14.03
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	26.56
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#323	Overall
	#28	Graph DBMS

Score	1.81
Rank	#143	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

terminusdb.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

DataChemist Ltd.

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2012

2013

2018

2003

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

2.7.6, April 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Graph Partitioning

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Journaling Streams

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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 journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Depending on used storage engine

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

simple rights management via user accounts

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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