DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. Brytlyt vs. H2 vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. Brytlyt vs. H2 vs. Prometheus

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.bigobject.io

docs.brytlyt.io

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

BigObject, Inc.

Brytlyt

Thomas Mueller

Initial release

2012

2015

2016

2005

2015

Current release

5.0, August 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Lua

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

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

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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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