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

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseOpen Source Time Series DBMSCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score19.03
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#147  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#346  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Score123.20
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.kinetica.comopentsdb.netsiridb.comwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdocs.kinetica.comopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.siridb.comdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Kineticacurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsCesbitSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20122012201120172014
Current release7.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageCC, C++JavaC
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes infoNumeric datayes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP APICLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonuser defined functionsnonouser defined functions
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenonono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBaseShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnosimple rights management via user accountsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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