DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. gStore vs. Newts vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. gStore vs. Newts vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org

en.gstore.cn

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

OpenNMS Group

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2012

2013

2016

2014

2015

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

1.2, November 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

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