DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. InfluxDB vs. Rockset vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. InfluxDB vs. Rockset vs. SAP Adaptive Server 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

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	36.31
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	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

rockset.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

siridb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.rockset.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Rockset

SAP, Sybase

Cesbit

Initial release

2012

2013

2019

1987

2017

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

restricted

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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