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

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

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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 concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.kinetica.com

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

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Kinetica

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Cesbit

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2012

2011

2017

2020

Current release

7.1, August 2021

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Telnet API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

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

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

none

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

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

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

simple rights management via user accounts

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