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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. CockroachDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. TerarkDB

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsCockroachDB 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.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
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Score17.94
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score6.15
Rank#55  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.cockroachlabs.comopentsdb.netgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Cockroach Labscurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2012201520112016
Current release24.1.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoLGPLcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageCGoJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesdynamic schemaschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsno
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 indexesrestrictedyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBCHTTP API
Telnet API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonnonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication using RAFTselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlnono

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