DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Greenplum vs. MaxDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Greenplum vs. MaxDB

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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 Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial 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	8.37
Rank	#48	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

phoenix.apache.org

greenplum.org

maxdb.sap.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

phoenix.apache.org

docs.greenplum.org

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Pivotal Software Inc.

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Initial release

2012

2014

2005

1984

Current release

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

7.0.0, September 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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