DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Pinot vs. Rockset vs. Transbase vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Pinot vs. Rockset vs. Transbase vs. XTDB

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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

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
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Score	0.38
Rank	#275	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

pinot.apache.org

rockset.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.pinot.apache.org

docs.rockset.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Rockset

Transaction Software GmbH

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2015

2019

1987

2019

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free development license

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

restricted

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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 rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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