DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. IBM Db2 vs. IRONdb vs. Kinetica

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. IBM Db2 vs. IRONdb vs. Kinetica

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.kinetica.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

docs.kinetica.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

IBM

Circonus LLC.

Kinetica

Initial release

2012

1983

host version

2017

2012

Current release

12.1, October 2016

V0.10.20, January 2018

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

yes, in Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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