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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. SiriDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. Yaacomo

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Name

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#346	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

siridb.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cesbit

Teradata

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2012

2017

2005

2009

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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