DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. Badger vs. Citus vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. Badger vs. Citus vs. RethinkDB

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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

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
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Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	2.21
Rank	#118	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.citusdata.com

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

docs.citusdata.com

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

DGraph Labs

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2012

2017

2010

2009

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

8.1, December 2018

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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.

yes

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL for querying

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

none

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Source-replica replication

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

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

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

users and table-level permissions

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