DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. Drizzle vs. Quasardb vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. Drizzle vs. Quasardb vs. STSdb

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

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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	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org

quasar.ai

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

quasardb

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2013

2008

2009

2011

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

7.2.4, September 2012

3.14.1, January 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

with Hadoop integration

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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