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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Coveo vs. KairosDB vs. MonetDB

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.coveo.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.coveo.com

kairosdb.github.io

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Coveo

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2012

2013

2004

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

yes

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

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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