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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. OpenTSDB vs. RRDtool vs. Snowflake

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score17.94
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftopentsdb.netoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmloss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsTobias OetikerSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release2012201119992014
Current release1.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageCJavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsNumeric data onlyyes
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.nonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleyes
Secondary indexesrestrictednono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
in-process shared library
Pipes
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonnonouser defined functions
Triggersnononono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on HBasenoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBasenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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