DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. SpaceTime vs. TDengine vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. SpaceTime vs. TDengine vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#109	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.87
Rank	#74	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.mireo.com/spacetime

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.tdengine.com

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Mireo

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Timescale

Initial release

2012

2020

2019

2017

Current release

3.0, August 2022

2.13.0, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3, also commercial editions available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
C++
Python

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes, via alarm monitoring

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

yes

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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