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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Drill vs. Apache Druid vs. BigObject vs. EXASOL

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score17.94
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftdrill.apache.orgdruid.apache.orgbigobject.iowww.exasol.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdrill.apache.org/­docsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.bigobject.iowww.exasol.com/­resources
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Apache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation and contributorsBigObject, Inc.Exasol
Initial release20122012201220152000
Current release1.20.3, January 202329.0.1, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache license v2commercial infofree community edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesrestrictednoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC++Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Java
Lua
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonuser defined functionsnoLuauser defined functions
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes infoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnonoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesDepending on the underlying data sourcenoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDepending on the underlying data sourceRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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