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DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Drill vs. RethinkDB vs. Riak KV vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Drill vs. RethinkDB vs. Riak KV vs. SwayDB

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score17.94
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftdrill.apache.orgrethinkdb.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdrill.apache.org/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Apache Software FoundationThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSimer Plaha
Initial release20122012200920092018
Current release1.20.3, January 20232.4.1, August 20203.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCC++ErlangScala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynono
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 indexesrestrictednoyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC++C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonuser defined functionsErlangno
TriggersnonoClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding inforange basedSharding infono "single point of failure"none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnonono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic single-document operationsnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
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 sourcenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDepending on the underlying data sourceyes infousers and table-level permissionsyes, using Riak Securityno

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