DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Derby vs. KairosDB vs. OpenSearch vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Derby vs. KairosDB vs. OpenSearch vs. RRDtool

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

db.apache.org/derby

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

kairosdb.github.io

opensearch.org/docs/latest

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Amazon Web Services

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2012

1997

2013

2021

1999

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

2.5.0, January 2023

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

yes

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

none

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

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

none

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

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

simple password-based access control

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