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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. InfluxDB vs. IRONdb

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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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	15.10
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	22.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

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

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

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

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Circonus LLC.

Initial release

2012

2013

2017

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes, in Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

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

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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