DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. ObjectBox vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. ObjectBox vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org

objectbox.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.objectbox.io

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

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

ObjectBox Limited

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2012

2013

2017

2015

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

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.

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

Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

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

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

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

online/offline synchronization between client and server

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

links between datasets can be stored

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

yes

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