DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. KeyDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. KeyDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#226	Overall
	#33	Key-value stores

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

quasar.ai

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.keydb.dev

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

doc.quasar.ai/master

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Oracle

quasardb

SiteWhere

Initial release

2012

2019

2011

2009

2010

Current release

23.3, December 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

optional

yes

integer and binary

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

by using the Redis Search module

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

off heap cache

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control and ACL

Access rights for users and roles

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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