DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Rockset vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Rockset vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.03
Rank	#122	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

rockset.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Percona

Rockset

Mireo

Initial release

2012

2008

2019

2020

Current release

8.0.36-28, 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

yes

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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

yes

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