DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Apache Pinot vs. BaseX vs. Hive

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Apache Pinot vs. BaseX vs. Hive

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
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Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

phoenix.apache.org

docs.pinot.apache.org

docs.basex.org

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

BaseX GmbH

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Initial release

2012

2014

2015

2007

2012

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

1.0.0, September 2023

10.7, August 2023

3.1.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

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

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Go
Java
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual 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

multiple readers, single writer

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 (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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