DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Oracle Coherence

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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

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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org

www.hawkular.org

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

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

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Community supported by Red Hat

Oracle

Initial release

2012

2014

2007

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Live Events

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, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency
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

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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