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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Bangdb vs. HBase vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

bangdb.com

hbase.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.bangdb.com

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2012

2008

2009

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

2.3.4, January 2021

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL like support with command line tool

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Erlang

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes (enterprise version only)

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

yes, using Riak Security

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