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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Hypertable vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

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

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

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

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

kairosdb.github.io

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

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Hypertable Inc.

Microsoft

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2012

2009

2013

2010

2020

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

1.2.2, November 2018

V12

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Thrift

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

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

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor on file system level

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes, with always 3 replicas available

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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