DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Axibase vs. FatDB vs. SpaceTime vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Axibase vs. FatDB vs. SpaceTime vs. SWC-DB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.mireo.com/spacetime

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Axibase Corporation

FatCloud

Mireo

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2012

2013

2012

2020

Current release

15585

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

SQL-like query language

Via inetgration in SQL Server

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
C++
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

via applications

Triggers

yes

via applications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

yes

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