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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. CockroachDB vs. InfluxDB vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	6.10
Rank	#58	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	26.56
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#346	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

siridb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cockroach Labs

Cesbit

Initial release

2012

2015

2013

2017

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

2.7.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

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

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

simple rights management via user accounts

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