DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. Greenplum vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. Greenplum vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	10.63
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org

greenplum.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.greenplum.org

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Pivotal Software Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2012

2013

2005

2020

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

7.0.0, September 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

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

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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