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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Informix vs. Kinetica vs. OpenTSDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things data

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	17.87
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.ibm.com/products/informix

www.kinetica.com

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

informix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G/welcomeIfxServers.html

docs.kinetica.com

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

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

IBM, HCL Technologies

Effective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.

Kinetica

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2012

1984

2012

2011

Current release

14.10.FC5, November 2020

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++ and Java

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
JSON API

MongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controls

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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