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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Phoenix vs. InfluxDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

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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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#125	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	22.12
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#16	Vector DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

phoenix.apache.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

phoenix.apache.org

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2014

2013

2023

Current release

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

2.7.6, April 2024

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

Vector, Numeric and String

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

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

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

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

Depending on used storage engine

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

simple rights management via user accounts

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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