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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. GreptimeDB vs. IRONdb vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

greptime.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.progress.com/openedge

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.greptime.com

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Greptime Inc.

Circonus LLC.

Progress Software Corporation

Oracle

Initial release

2012

2022

2017

1984

1980

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

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

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Python

yes, in Lua

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

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

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Simple rights management via user accounts

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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