DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. Sadas Engine vs. Trino vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. Sadas Engine vs. Trino vs. Weaviate

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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

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

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org

www.sadasengine.com

trino.io

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

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

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Social network pages

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

SADAS s.r.l.

Trino Software Foundation

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2012

2006

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

2019

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

8.0

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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

depending on connected data-source

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL for querying

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

horizontal partitioning

depending on connected data-source

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

none

depending on connected data-source

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Eventual 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

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

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'

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

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

SQL standard access control

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

High performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

Performant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customers

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All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing models

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