DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Kylin vs. Elasticsearch vs. JSqlDb

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Kylin vs. Elasticsearch vs. JSqlDb

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#175	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	134.78
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

kylin.apache.org

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

jsqldb.org (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

kylin.apache.org/docs

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Elastic

Konrad von Backstrom

Initial release

2012

2015

2010

2018

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

8.6, January 2023

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

using RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Memcached and Redis integration

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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