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

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

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed 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

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

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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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	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

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

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Hypertable Inc.

Initial release

2012

2009

2013

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2.7.6, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

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

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

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

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.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

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

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

selectable replication factor on file system level

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

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

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

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

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

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

simple rights management via user accounts

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