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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. chDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Memcached vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

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

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Trend Chart

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#376	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.memcached.org

origodb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

doc.chdb.io

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2012

2023

2013

2003

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

1.6.27, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.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

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

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

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

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Role based authorization

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