DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Graphite vs. mSQL vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Graphite vs. mSQL vs. Realm

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

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	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

realm.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

graphite.readthedocs.io

realm.io/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Chris Davis

Hughes Technologies

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2012

2006

1994

2014

Current release

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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