DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Doris vs. Citus vs. Drizzle vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Doris vs. Citus vs. Drizzle vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
RDF store

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#247	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

www.citusdata.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

docs.citusdata.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2017

2010

2008

2018

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

8.1, December 2018

7.2.4, September 2012

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
MySQL client

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

JDBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Java
PHP

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

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 journaling

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Role-based access control

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