DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. NSDb vs. Rockset vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. NSDb vs. Rockset vs. VictoriaMetrics

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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

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.23
Rank	#172	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

nsdb.io

rockset.com

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.rockset.com

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Rockset

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2012

2017

2019

2018

Current release

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

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

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

restricted

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

HTTP REST

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous replication

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

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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