DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Dragonfly vs. Kinetica vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Dragonfly vs. Kinetica vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
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Score	0.44
Rank	#255	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	0.42
Rank	#261	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#127	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

www.kinetica.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

docs.kinetica.com

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Kinetica

Oracle

Initial release

2012

2023

2012

2007

Current release

1.0, March 2023

7.1, August 2021

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

scheme-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate 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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Password-based authentication

Access rights for users and roles on table level

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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