DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Kylin vs. etcd vs. HBase vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Kylin vs. etcd vs. HBase vs. SpaceTime

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Name

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 reliable key-value store

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.25
Rank	#170	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	7.03
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

kylin.apache.org

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

hbase.apache.org

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

kylin.apache.org/docs

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Mireo

Initial release

2012

2015

2008

2020

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

3.4, August 2019

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

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 Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

yes

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