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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. GreptimeDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. NSDb vs. ScyllaDB

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsAn open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score17.94
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score4.75
Rank#68  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftgreptime.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-servernsdb.iowww.scylladb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdocs.greptime.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-servernsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Greptime Inc.MicrosoftScyllaDB
Initial release20122022198920172015
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 2022ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCRustC++Java, ScalaC++
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardyesyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
Java
Scala
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PythonPythonTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javanoyes, Lua
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per object
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Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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ScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantages- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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ScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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ScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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