DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. Kdb vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. Kdb vs. Sadas Engine

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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

High performance Time Series DBMS

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

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

Score	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org

kx.com

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

code.kx.com

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2012

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2006

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

3.6, May 2018

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

free trial version 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
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

with views

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

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

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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