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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP HANA vs. Sphinx

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Object oriented DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
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Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score16.88
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score44.27
Rank#23  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftdruid.apache.orgobjectbox.iowww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.objectbox.iohelp.sap.com/­hanasphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Apache Software Foundation and contributorsObjectBox LimitedSAPSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20122012201720102001
Current release29.0.1, April 20242.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono infoalso available as a cloud based serviceno
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Implementation languageCJavaC and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Appliance or cloud-serviceFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSQL for queryingnoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary native APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PythonnonoSQLScript, Rno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednoneyesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesonline/offline synchronization between client and serveryesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemyesyesno
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