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

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	14.03
Rank	#40	Overall
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Score	2.68
Rank	#109	Overall
	#8	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

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

terminusdb.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.tdengine.com

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

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

DataChemist Ltd.

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2012

2013

2019

2018

2003

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

3.0, August 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPL V3, also commercial editions 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
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

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, via alarm monitoring

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

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

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

yes

Role-based access control

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

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