DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. InfluxDB vs. Informix vs. Teradata Aster vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. InfluxDB vs. Informix vs. Teradata Aster vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed 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 secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things data

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

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Trend Chart

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	22.12
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.32
Rank	#35	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.ibm.com/products/informix

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

informix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G/welcomeIfxServers.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

IBM, HCL Technologies

Effective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.

Teradata

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2012

2013

1984

2005

2009

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

14.10.FC5, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++ and Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes

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.

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JDBC
JSON API

MongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

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++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controls

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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