DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Phoenix vs. BigObject vs. Machbase Neo vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Phoenix vs. BigObject vs. Machbase Neo vs. Postgres-XL

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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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

phoenix.apache.org

docs.bigobject.io

machbase.com/dbms

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

BigObject, Inc.

Machbase

Initial release

2012

2014

2015

2013

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

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

V8.0, August 2023

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

volatile and lookup table

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

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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