DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. IRONdb vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. IRONdb vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Splice Machine

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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

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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Circonus LLC.

Oracle

Splice Machine

Initial release

2012

2017

2007

2014

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

14.1, August 2023

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

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

.Net
C++
Java

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes, in Lua

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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