DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. RRDtool vs. SpatiaLite vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. RRDtool vs. SpatiaLite vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Spatial extension of SQLite

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Tobias Oetiker

Alessandro Furieri

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2012

1999

2008

2020

Current release

1.8.0, 2022

5.0.0, August 2020

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

HP-UX
Linux

server-less

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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