DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Badger vs. EXASOL vs. HEAVY.AI vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Badger vs. EXASOL vs. HEAVY.AI vs. RethinkDB

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

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

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.22
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Score	1.76
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Score	1.64
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Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.exasol.com

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

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.heavy.ai

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

DGraph Labs

Exasol

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2012

2017

2000

2016

2009

Current release

5.10, January 2022

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
Lua
Python
R

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

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

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

users and table-level permissions

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