DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Geode vs. Kinetica vs. OpenTSDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Geode vs. Kinetica vs. OpenTSDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.99
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Score	0.69
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	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#147	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.kinetica.com

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Kinetica

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2002

2012

2011

2014

Current release

1.1, February 2017

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Telnet API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

yes, on a single node

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights per client and object definable

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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