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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Memcached vs. Riak TS vs. SpaceTime vs. TimescaleDB

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score17.94
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.memcached.orgwww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesMireoTimescale
Initial release20122003201520202017
Current release1.6.25, March 20243.0.0, September 20222.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCCErlangC++C
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data 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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesrestrictednorestrictednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardnoyes, limitedA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PythonnoErlangnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingFixed-grid hypercubesyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityselectable replication factorReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnono infolinks between datasets can be storednoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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