DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. GigaSpaces vs. Infobright vs. openGemini

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. GigaSpaces vs. Infobright vs. openGemini

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#375	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org

www.gigaspaces.com

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

docs.opengemini.org/guide

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Gigaspaces Technologies

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Huawei and openGemini community

Initial release

2012

2013

2000

2005

2022

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

15.5, September 2020

1.1, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

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

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

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Administrators and common users accounts

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