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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. OpenMLDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.06
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

openmldb.ai

opentsdb.net

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

openmldb.ai/docs/zh/main

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

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

4 Paradigm Inc.

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Timescale

Initial release

2012

2020

2011

2017

Current release

2024-2 February 2024

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java, Scala

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
SQLAlchemy

HTTP API
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

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

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

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