DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Kinetica vs. Transwarp Hippo vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Kinetica vs. Transwarp Hippo vs. YottaDB

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#386	Overall
	#16	Vector DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.kinetica.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.kinetica.com

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Kinetica

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2012

2023

2001

Current release

7.1, August 2021

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
Python

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

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

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

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.