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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. Dragonfly vs. HEAVY.AI

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#261	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

docs.heavy.ai

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

2023

2016

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

1.0, March 2023

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

scheme-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Lua

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

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

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

Password-based authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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