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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Blueflood vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

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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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

phoenix.apache.org

blueflood.io

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

phoenix.apache.org

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Rackspace

IBM

Initial release

2012

2014

2013

2017

Current release

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

2.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

predefined scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Active-active shard replication

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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