DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS vs. RethinkDB

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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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

phoenix.apache.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

phoenix.apache.org

spotify.github.io/heroic

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Spotify

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2012

2014

2009

Current release

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

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

JavaScript

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

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 single collection possible

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

yes

users and table-level permissions

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