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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Graph Engine vs. QuestDB vs. Riak KV vs. Snowflake

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score17.94
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.graphengine.ioquestdb.iowww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualquestdb.io/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)MicrosoftQuestDB Technology IncOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20122010201420092014
Current release3.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageC.NET and CJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustErlang
Server operating systemshosted.NETLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesrestrictednorestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardnoSQL with time-series extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PythonyesnoErlanguser defined functions
Triggersnononoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding infono "single point of failure"yes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnonono infolinks between data sets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID for single-table writesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak SecurityUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
More information provided by the system vendor
Amazon RedshiftGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityQuestDBRiak KVSnowflake
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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