DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. HyperSQL vs. ReductStore

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. HyperSQL vs. ReductStore

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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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.14
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org

hsqldb.org

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

www.reduct.store/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

ReductStore LLC

Initial release

2012

2001

2023

Current release

30.0.0, June 2024

2.7.2, June 2023

1.9, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

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

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java, SQL

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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