DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#332	Overall
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

quasar.ai

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

doc.quasar.ai/master

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

quasardb

SiteWhere

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2009

2010

2018

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

GPL V3

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++

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

HTTP REST

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

JavaScript
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

consistent hashing

Sharding

based on HBase

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

by using LevelDB

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Role-based access control

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