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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Blueflood vs. LevelDB vs. NSDb vs. SiriDB

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

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Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
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	#41	Time Series DBMS

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	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

blueflood.io

github.com/google/leveldb

nsdb.io

siridb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Rackspace

Google

Cesbit

Initial release

2012

2013

2011

2017

Current release

1.23, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

Numeric data

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Java
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

Using Apache Lucene

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

simple rights management via user accounts

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