DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Blueflood vs. Ingres vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Blueflood vs. Ingres vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Well established RDBMS

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.63
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	1.38
Rank	#156	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

blueflood.io

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Rackspace

Actian Corporation

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2010

Current release

12.0, July 2024

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Ingres Replicator

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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