DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. Greenplum vs. Manticore Search vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. Greenplum vs. Manticore Search vs. STSdb

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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

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.37
Rank	#48	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org

greenplum.org

manticoresearch.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.greenplum.org

manual.manticoresearch.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Pivotal Software Inc.

Manticore Software

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2005

2017

2011

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

7.0.0, September 2023

6.0, February 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license 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

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

since Version 4.2

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL for querying

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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