DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Dolt vs. InfluxDB vs. NCache vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Dolt vs. InfluxDB vs. NCache vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

siridb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.dolthub.com

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

DoltHub Inc

Alachisoft

Cesbit

Initial release

2012

2018

2013

2005

2017

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes

Numeric data

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-like query language

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
HTTP REST

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

currently in alpha release

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

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
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

simple rights management via user accounts

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

simple rights management via user accounts

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