DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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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

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
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Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

IBM

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2014

2016

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

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

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

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

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

yes

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