DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. FatDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. FatDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. STSdb

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.03
Rank	#122	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

FatCloud

Percona

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2013

2008

2011

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

8.0.36-28, 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

via applications

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

none

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
Immediate Consistency

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Can implement custom security layer via applications

simple rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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