DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. H2GIS vs. LevelDB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. H2GIS vs. LevelDB vs. TinkerGraph

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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

Spatial extension of H2

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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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	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org

www.h2gis.org

github.com/google/leveldb

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

CNRS

Google

Initial release

2012

2013

2011

2009

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

1.23, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Java

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

based on H2

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

optional

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

yes

based on H2

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