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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. IRONdb vs. Netezza

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Primary database model

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.39
Rank	#274	Overall
	#39	Key-value stores

Score	8.59
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cloudflare

Circonus LLC.

IBM

Initial release

2012

2018

2017

2000

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

included in appliance

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes, in Lua

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

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

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 with fine-grained authorization concept

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