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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Memcached vs. QuestDB vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score15.25
Rank#38  Overall
#23  Relational DBMS
Score16.84
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score133.72
Rank#7  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#234  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.memcached.orgquestdb.iowww.snowflake.comsqream.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiquestdb.io/­docsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalQuestDB Technology IncSnowflake Computing Inc.SQream Technologies
Initial release20122003201420142017
Current release1.6.29, June 20242022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCCJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesrestrictednonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardnoSQL with time-series extensionsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonnonouser defined functionsuser defined functions in Python
Triggersnononono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)yeshorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replication with eventual consistencyyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID for single-table writesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
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