DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. InfluxDB vs. Memcached vs. Netezza vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. InfluxDB vs. Memcached vs. Netezza vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.memcached.org

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

IBM

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

2003

2000

2001

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

1.6.27, May 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Proprietary protocol

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++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

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

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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