DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Ehcache vs. RRDtool vs. ScyllaDB vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Ehcache vs. RRDtool vs. ScyllaDB vs. Sqrrl

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Key-value store

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#76	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.ehcache.org

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.scylladb.com

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.ehcache.org/documentation

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Tobias Oetiker

ScyllaDB

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2009

1999

2015

2012

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

1.8.0, 2022

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JCache

in-process shared library
Pipes

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

none

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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