DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Kinetica vs. OpenTSDB vs. RisingWave vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Kinetica vs. OpenTSDB vs. RisingWave vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#238	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.kinetica.com

opentsdb.net

www.risingwave.com/database

siridb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.kinetica.com

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Kinetica

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

RisingWave Labs

Cesbit

Initial release

2012

2011

2022

2017

Current release

7.1, August 2021

1.2, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

Standard SQL-types and JSON

yes

Numeric data

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Telnet API

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Users and Roles

simple rights management via user accounts

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