DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Kdb vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Kdb vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenTSDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

High performance Time Series DBMS

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#49	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.hawkular.org

kx.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

code.kx.com

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Community supported by Red Hat

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Microsoft

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2012

2014

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2010

2011

Current release

3.6, May 2018

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenarios

tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customers

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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