DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. RRDtool vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. RRDtool vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

phoenix.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

phoenix.apache.org

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

Tobias Oetiker

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2012

2014

2010

1999

2020

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

V12

1.8.0, 2022

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

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

Java

C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

HP-UX
Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

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

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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