DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenTSDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenTSDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	4.92
Rank	#73	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	1.73
Rank	#147	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#344	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

opentsdb.net

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Microsoft

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Teradata

Initial release

2012

2011

2005

2009

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

R packages

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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