DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Hyprcubd

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Hyprcubd

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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 embedded key-value store for Go.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/spotify/heroic

hyprcubd.com (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Spotify

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

2014

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

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

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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

via Elasticsearch

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

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

gRPC (https)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

token access

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