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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. GBase vs. Netezza vs. RRDtool

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.gbase.cn

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

IBM

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2012

2004

2000

1999

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

included in appliance

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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