DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Kylin vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Kylin vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Quasardb

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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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
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Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

kylin.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

kylin.apache.org/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

quasardb

Initial release

2012

2015

2010

2009

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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