DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Graphite vs. SpaceTime vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Graphite vs. SpaceTime vs. Transbase

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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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Chris Davis

Mireo

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

2006

2020

1987

Current release

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Sockets

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Source-replica replication

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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