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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Drill vs. DolphinDB vs. Graphite vs. Oracle Rdb

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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

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

drill.apache.org

www.dolphindb.com

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

DolphinDB, Inc

Chris Davis

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2012

2018

2006

1984

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

v2.00.4, January 2022

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Python

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
Unix

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

HTTP API
Sockets

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

none

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

yes

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

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