DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. CrateDB vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. CrateDB vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Distributed Database based on Lucene

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.73
Rank	#229	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#8	Vector DBMS

Score	7.92
Rank	#51	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#327	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#308	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

cratedb.com

prometheus.io

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

cratedb.com/docs

prometheus.io/docs

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Crate

quasardb

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2012

2013

2015

2009

2015

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

Linux
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

integer and binary

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

with tags

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

SQL-like query language

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.NET
Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions (Javascript)

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

yes

by Federation

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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