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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. gStore vs. InfluxDB vs. Ingres vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Well established RDBMS

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

en.gstore.cn

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

siridb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Actian Corporation

Cesbit

Initial release

2012

2016

2013

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2017

Current release

1.2, November 2023

2.7.6, April 2024

11.2, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

Numeric data

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

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
SPARQL 1.1

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Ingres Replicator

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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