DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. chDB vs. Fauna vs. IRONdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. chDB vs. Fauna vs. IRONdb

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	14.07
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#351	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	1.43
Rank	#148	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#13	Graph DBMS
	#68	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

fauna.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

doc.chdb.io

docs.fauna.com

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Fauna, Inc.

Circonus LLC.

Initial release

2012

2023

2014

2017

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes, in Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Identity management, authentication, and access control

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