DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. HyperSQL vs. Memcached vs. SpaceTime vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. HyperSQL vs. Memcached vs. SpaceTime vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.49
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	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#71	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

hsqldb.org

www.memcached.org

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Mireo

Timescale

Initial release

2012

2001

2003

2020

2017

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

1.6.25, March 2024

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java, SQL

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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