DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. KeyDB vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. KeyDB vs. Postgres-XL

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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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.68
Rank	#223	Overall
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Score	0.41
Rank	#261	Overall
	#121	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.keydb.dev

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2019

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
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
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

MVCC

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

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 and ACL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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