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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Blueflood

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	20.67
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#277	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

blueflood.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/rackerlabs/blueflood/wiki

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Rackspace

Initial release

2012

2013

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source info

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

user defined functions info

in Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor info

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency info

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency info

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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

yes

User concepts info

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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