DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. OpenTSDB vs. Rockset vs. STSdb vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. OpenTSDB vs. Rockset vs. STSdb vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

opentsdb.net

rockset.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

docs.rockset.com

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Rockset

STS Soft SC

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2012

2011

2019

2011

2010

Current release

4.0.8, September 2015

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

hosted

Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

dynamic typing

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

restricted

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Telnet API

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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