DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Drizzle vs. Kinetica vs. SpaceTime vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Drizzle vs. Kinetica vs. SpaceTime vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#377	Overall
	#58	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.kinetica.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.kinetica.com

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Kinetica

Mireo

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2012

2008

2012

2020

2016

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Java
PHP

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

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

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights for users and roles on table level

yes

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