DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. Apache Impala vs. Apache Kylin vs. Memgraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. Apache Impala vs. Apache Kylin vs. Memgraph

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
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Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	1.25
Rank	#170	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

kylin.apache.org/docs

memgraph.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Memgraph Ltd

Initial release

2012

2013

2015

2017

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

4.1.0, June 2022

3.1.0, July 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL for querying

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication using RAFT

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Users, roles and permissions

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Licensing and pricing models

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