DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Kinetica vs. OpenTenBase vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Kinetica vs. OpenTenBase vs. VictoriaMetrics

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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

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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	0.08
Rank	#370	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	1.23
Rank	#172	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.kinetica.com

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.kinetica.com

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Kinetica

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2012

2018

Current release

7.1, August 2021

2.5, January 2024

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

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

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

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

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

Synchronous replication

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

Eventual 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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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