DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Pinot vs. Kingbase

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Pinot vs. Kingbase

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.38
Rank	#275	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

pinot.apache.org

www.kingbase.com.cn

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.pinot.apache.org

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Initial release

2012

2015

1999

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

V8.0, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux
Windows

Data 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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

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