DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. Axibase vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. Axibase vs. Titan

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Name

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Axibase Corporation

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2012

2013

2012

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

15585

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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 query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

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 graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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