DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. etcd vs. Teradata Aster vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. etcd vs. Teradata Aster vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A distributed reliable key-value store

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	7.03
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	1.23
Rank	#172	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Teradata

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2012

2005

2018

Current release

3.4, August 2019

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

R packages

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

yes

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

Synchronous 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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

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

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