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DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. BigObject vs. EXASOL vs. HEAVY.AI

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. BigObject vs. EXASOL vs. HEAVY.AI

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsAnalytic DBMS for HadoopAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score17.94
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftimpala.apache.orgbigobject.iowww.exasol.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.bigobject.iowww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.heavy.ai
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaBigObject, Inc.ExasolHEAVY.AI, Inc.
Initial release20122013201520002016
Current release4.1.0, June 20225.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++ and CUDA
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJava
Lua
Python
R
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceLuauser defined functionsno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardingSharding infoRound robin
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyes infoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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