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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Ehcache vs. InfluxDB vs. Interbase vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	24.39
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	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.ehcache.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.ehcache.org/documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Embarcadero

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

2009

2013

1984

1987

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

2.7.6, April 2024

InterBase 2020, December 2019

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JCache

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Interbase Change Views

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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