DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. Solr vs. Tibero vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. Solr vs. Tibero vs. Titan

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Name

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org

solr.apache.org

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

solr.apache.org/resources.html

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Apache Software Foundation

TmaxSoft

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2012

2013

2006

2003

2012

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

9.6.0, April 2024

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and Assembler

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Java plugins

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

yes

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

planned for next version

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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