DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. Dragonfly vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. InfluxDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. Dragonfly vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. InfluxDB

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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

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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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	0.49
Rank	#261	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Initial release

2012

2023

2012

2013

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

1.0, March 2023

2.7.6, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

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

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

scheme-free

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

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

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Lua

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

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

Depending on used storage engine

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

Password-based authentication

yes, based on authentication and database rules

simple rights management via user accounts

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