DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. etcd vs. InfluxDB vs. Kinetica

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. etcd vs. InfluxDB vs. Kinetica

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A distributed reliable key-value store

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	7.05
Rank	#53	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	22.12
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#261	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.kinetica.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.kinetica.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Kinetica

Initial release

2012

2013

2012

Current release

3.4, August 2019

2.7.6, April 2024

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

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, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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