DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Kylin vs. Netezza vs. SiriDB vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Kylin vs. Netezza vs. SiriDB vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Open Source Time Series DBMS

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

kylin.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

siridb.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

IBM

Cesbit

Mireo

Initial release

2012

2015

2000

2017

2020

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

included in appliance

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

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

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate 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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

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