DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Infobright vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Infobright vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Widely used RDBMS

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

opentsdb.net

www.oracle.com/database

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Oracle

SiteWhere

Initial release

2012

2005

2011

1980

2010

Current release

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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