DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. BaseX vs. Hypertable vs. InfluxDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. BaseX vs. Hypertable vs. InfluxDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org

basex.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.basex.org

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

BaseX GmbH

Hypertable Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

2007

2009

2013

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

10.7, August 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2.7.6, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

Numeric data and Strings

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

C++ API
Thrift

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

none

selectable replication factor on file system level

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

simple rights management via user accounts

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