DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. NSDb vs. openGauss vs. Prometheus vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. NSDb vs. openGauss vs. Prometheus vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

nsdb.io

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

prometheus.io

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

prometheus.io/docs

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Huawei and openGauss community

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2012

2017

2019

2015

2001

Current release

3.0, March 2022

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

C, C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

Linux

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

ANSI SQL 2011

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
Scala

C
C++
Java

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

by Federation

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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 for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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