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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Blueflood vs. QuestDB vs. Sequoiadb

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score15.25
Rank#38  Overall
#23  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#263  Overall
#41  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftblueflood.ioquestdb.iowww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiquestdb.io/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)RackspaceQuestDB Technology IncSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release2012201320142013
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageCJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyespredefined schemeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesrestrictednonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardnoSQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PythonnonoJavaScript
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with eventual consistencySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID for single-table writesDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnosimple password-based access control
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