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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. Elasticsearch vs. Ignite

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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 distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

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

Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

ignite.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Elastic

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2010

2015

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

8.6, January 2023

Apache Ignite 2.6

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java, .Net

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

yes (replicated cache)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate 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

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

Memcached and Redis integration

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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