DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. GridGain vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. ITTIA

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. GridGain vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. ITTIA

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	0.39
Rank	#273	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.gridgain.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.ittia.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

GridGain Systems, Inc.

InterSystems

ITTIA L.L.C.

Initial release

2012

2007

2018

2007

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

2023.3, June 2023

8.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

Fixed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

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

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

Database file passwords

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