DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. CouchDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. CouchDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. TDengine

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Name

Hyprcubd 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 native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Well established RDBMS

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Relational DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

couchdb.apache.org

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Actian Corporation

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2012

2005

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2019

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

11.2, May 2022

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC (https)

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Ingres Replicator

yes

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

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

token access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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