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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. DolphinDB vs. Rockset vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Document store
RDF store

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Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	2.72
Rank	#100	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.dolphindb.com

rockset.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

docs.rockset.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

DolphinDB, Inc

Rockset

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2018

2019

2018

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

HTTP REST

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Journaling Streams

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

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 journaling

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

Role-based access control

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