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DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. BigObject vs. CockroachDB vs. EXASOL

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

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  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.High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score17.94
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score6.15
Rank#55  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftdruid.apache.orgbigobject.iowww.cockroachlabs.comwww.exasol.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.bigobject.iowww.cockroachlabs.com/­docswww.exasol.com/­resources
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Apache Software Foundation and contributorsBigObject, Inc.Cockroach LabsExasol
Initial release20122012201520152000
Current release29.0.1, April 202424.1.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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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 schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesrestrictedyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
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
Java
Lua
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PythonnoLuanouser defined functions
Triggersnonononoyes
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 RAFTSharding
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 methodsnonononoyes infoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
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.yesnoyesnoyes
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 controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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