DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Quasardb vs. Riak TS vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Quasardb vs. Riak TS vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

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

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

quasar.ai

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

quasardb

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2009

2015

2011

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

with tags

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

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

links between datasets can be stored

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

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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