DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Kdb vs. Lovefield vs. Memcached vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Kdb vs. Lovefield vs. Memcached vs. Sphinx

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

High performance Time Series DBMS

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
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Score	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

kx.com

google.github.io/lovefield

www.memcached.org

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

code.kx.com

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Google

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2012

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2014

2003

2001

Current release

3.6, May 2018

2.1.12, February 2017

1.6.25, March 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language (q)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

JavaScript

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

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

with views

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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