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DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. EventStoreDB vs. KairosDB vs. Lovefield vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. EventStoreDB vs. KairosDB vs. Lovefield vs. PostGIS

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent StoreTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score16.88
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score1.19
Rank#173  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.eventstore.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldpostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdevelopers.eventstore.comkairosdb.github.iogithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Event Store LimitedGoogle
Initial release20122012201320142005
Current release21.2, February 20211.2.2, November 20182.1.12, February 20173.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCJavaJavaScriptC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyes
Secondary indexesrestrictednoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonnonouser defined functions
TriggersnonoUsing read-only observersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlnoyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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