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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. GigaSpaces vs. Kdb vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonOracle  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsHigh performance Time Series DBMSA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneWidely used RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS infosince Oracle 23
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score16.88
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score16.03
Rank#37  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score1244.08
Rank#1  Overall
#1  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.gigaspaces.comkx.comgithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
www.oracle.com/­database
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlcode.kx.comopensearch.org/­docs/­latestdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Gigaspaces TechnologiesKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcAmazon Web ServicesOracle
Initial release201220002000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320211980
Current release15.5, September 20203.6, May 20182.5.0, January 202323c, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial inforestricted free version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCJava, C++, .NetqJavaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes infoSchemaless in JSON and XML columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatayesyes
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSQL-99 for query and DML statementsSQL-like query language (q)SQL-like query languageyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonyesuser defined functionsyesPL/SQL infoalso stored procedures in Java possible
Triggersnoyes, event driven architectureyes infowith viewsyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replicationyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno infocan be realized in PL/SQL
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID infoisolation level can be parameterized
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes infoVersion 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Amazon RedshiftGigaSpacesKdbOpenSearchOracle
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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