DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Kinetica vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Kinetica vs. Prometheus

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.kinetica.com

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.intersystems.com

docs.kinetica.com

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Atos Convergence Creators

InterSystems

Kinetica

Initial release

2012

2016

1997

2012

2015

Current release

1703

2018.1.4, May 2020

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

LDAP

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages with LDAP bindings

C#
C++
Java

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

by Federation

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

none

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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