DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Galaxybase vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Galaxybase vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

galaxybase.com

www.postgres-xl.org

quasar.ai

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

quasardb

SiteWhere

Initial release

2012

2017

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2009

2010

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

10 R1, October 2018

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined procedures and functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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