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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Bangdb vs. EventStoreDB vs. InfluxDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Event Store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

bangdb.com

www.eventstore.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.bangdb.com

developers.eventstore.com

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Event Store Limited

Initial release

2012

2013

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

21.2, February 2021

2.7.6, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

Numeric data and Strings

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

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

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes (enterprise version only)

simple rights management via user accounts

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