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DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. Apache Kylin vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. Apache Kylin vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RocksDB

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
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Score17.94
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.18
Rank#172  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftdruid.apache.orgkylin.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantrocksdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designkylin.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Apache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Facebook, Inc.
Initial release20122012201520102013
Current release29.0.1, April 20243.1.0, July 20208.11.4, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageCJavaJavaErlangC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxhostedLinux
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnono
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 indexesrestrictedyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSQL for queryingANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)nono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PythonnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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