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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. Hive vs. OrientDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigobject.io

hive.apache.org

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.bigobject.io

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

BigObject, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2012

2015

2012

2010

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

All OS with a Java VM

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Lua

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Java, Javascript

Triggers

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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