DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. ITTIA vs. Linter vs. mSQL vs. ScyllaDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. ITTIA vs. Linter vs. mSQL vs. ScyllaDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

RDBMS for high security requirements

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#267	Overall
	#23	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#76	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.ittia.com

linter.ru

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.scylladb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

ITTIA L.L.C.

relex.ru

Hughes Technologies

ScyllaDB

Initial release

2012

2007

1990

1994

2015

Current release

8.7

4.4, October 2021

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

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

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

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

yes

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Database file passwords

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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