DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. FatDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. jBASE

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. FatDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. jBASE

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the 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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Multivalue 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	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org

www.hawkular.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

FatCloud

Community supported by Red Hat

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

2012

2014

1991

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

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

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL for querying

Via inetgration in SQL Server

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

via applications

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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