DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Badger vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IRONdb vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Badger vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IRONdb vs. Teradata

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

docs.heavy.ai

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

DGraph Labs

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Circonus LLC.

Teradata

Initial release

2012

2017

2016

2017

1984

Current release

5.10, January 2022

V0.10.20, January 2018

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes, in Lua

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Round robin

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

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 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

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