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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Drill vs. Apache Phoenix vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#119	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#130	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	1087.72
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

drill.apache.org

phoenix.apache.org

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

drill.apache.org/docs

phoenix.apache.org

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2012

2014

1995

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

8.3.0, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

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

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Depending on the underlying data source

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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