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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Heroic vs. KairosDB vs. Memcached vs. MonetDB

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score17.94
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.memcached.orgwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftspotify.github.io/­heroickairosdb.github.iogithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)SpotifyDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalMonetDB BV
Initial release20122014201320032004
Current release1.2.2, November 20181.6.25, March 2024Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCJavaJavaCC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesrestrictedyes infovia Elasticsearchnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardnononoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Proprietary protocolJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonnononoyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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