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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. KairosDB vs. MonetDB vs. openGauss

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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 relational database management system that stores data in columns

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#175	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.monetdb.org

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

kairosdb.github.io

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

MonetDB BV

Huawei and openGauss community

Initial release

2012

2013

2004

2019

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

3.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

ANSI SQL 2011

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

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

C
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding via remote tables

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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