DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Machbase Neo vs. NSDb vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Machbase Neo vs. NSDb vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#348	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

machbase.com

nsdb.io

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

machbase.com/dbms

nsdb.io/Architecture

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Machbase

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

2017

2013

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

9.4.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, 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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Java
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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