DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. FatDB vs. Riak TS vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. FatDB vs. Riak TS vs. Rockset

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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.

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

rockset.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

FatCloud

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Rockset

Initial release

2012

2015

2019

Current release

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Linux
OS X

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

restricted

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes, limited

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

via applications

Erlang

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

links between datasets can be stored

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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