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

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

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsFull-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 H2Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score16.88
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftdb.apache.org/­derbygithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdboss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolvitess.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlkairosdb.github.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Apache Software FoundationTobias OetikerThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20121997201319992013
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20231.2.2, November 20181.8.0, 202215.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCJavaJavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableGo
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.noyesnono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardyesnonoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBCGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
in-process shared library
Pipes
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJavaJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PythonJava Stored Proceduresnonoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemyesnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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