DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Axibase vs. Badger vs. Elasticsearch vs. HEAVY.AI

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Axibase vs. Badger vs. Elasticsearch vs. HEAVY.AI

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

docs.heavy.ai

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Axibase Corporation

DGraph Labs

Elastic

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

2017

2010

2016

Current release

15585

8.6, January 2023

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Round robin

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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