DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. atoti vs. IRONdb vs. KairosDB vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. atoti vs. IRONdb vs. KairosDB vs. SpaceTime

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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

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.56
Rank	#245	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

atoti.io

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

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.atoti.io

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

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

ActiveViam

Circonus LLC.

Mireo

Initial release

2012

2017

2013

2020

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Python

yes, in Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

simple password-based access control

yes

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