DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. KairosDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Memcached

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. KairosDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Memcached

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

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

Primary database model

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#266	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

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

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

www.memcached.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

kairosdb.github.io

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Kyligence, Inc.

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Initial release

2012

2013

2016

2003

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

1.6.27, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate 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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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