DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. InfluxDB vs. PouchDB vs. RisingWave vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. InfluxDB vs. PouchDB vs. RisingWave vs. SiriDB

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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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

Open Source Time Series DBMS

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	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.58
Rank	#242	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

pouchdb.com

www.risingwave.com/database

siridb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

RisingWave Labs

Cesbit

Initial release

2012

2013

2012

2022

2017

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

1.2, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Docker
Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

via views

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

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

HTTP API

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

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

View functions in JavaScript

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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 and Roles

simple rights management via user accounts

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