DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Ingres vs. KairosDB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Ingres vs. KairosDB vs. SiteWhere

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Name

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.

Well established RDBMS

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

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

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

docs.actian.com/ingres

kairosdb.github.io

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cloudflare

Actian Corporation

SiteWhere

Initial release

2012

2018

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2013

2010

Current release

11.2, May 2022

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Ingres Replicator

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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