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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. BigObject vs. CockroachDB

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  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 dataAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesCockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score15.25
Rank#38  Overall
#23  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#329  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score4.74
Rank#67  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftdruid.apache.orgbigobject.iowww.cockroachlabs.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.bigobject.iowww.cockroachlabs.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Apache Software Foundation and contributorsBigObject, Inc.Cockroach Labs
Initial release2012201220152015
Current release30.0.0, June 202424.1.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageCJavaGo
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesdynamic schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PythonnoLuano
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednonehorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnoneMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
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 systemnoRole-based access control

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