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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. EsgynDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. OpenTSDB

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.esgyn.cn

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

firebase.google.com/docs/database

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Esgyn

Google

acquired by Google 2014

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2012

2015

2012

2011

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java Stored Procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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