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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. BoltDB vs. EDB Postgres

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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

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial 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	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	1.90
Rank	#135	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.enterprisedb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

EnterpriseDB

Initial release

2012

2013

2005

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

14, December 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

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

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

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
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

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

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

none

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

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