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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Kdb vs. MonetDB vs. RethinkDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

High performance Time Series DBMS

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#49	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

kx.com

www.monetdb.org

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

code.kx.com

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

MonetDB BV

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2012

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2004

2009

Current release

3.6, May 2018

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

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

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

yes

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

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

users and table-level permissions

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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