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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. InfinityDB vs. Newts

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	22.23
Rank	#32	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#373	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#400	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

boilerbay.com

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Boiler Bay Inc.

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2012

2002

2014

Current release

4.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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