DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. BoltDB vs. ClickHouse vs. Heroic vs. Hyprcubd

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BoltDB vs. ClickHouse vs. Heroic vs. Hyprcubd

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
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Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/boltdb/bolt

clickhouse.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

hyprcubd.com (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

clickhouse.com/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Clickhouse Inc.

Spotify

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

2016

2014

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

gRPC (https)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

key based and custom

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

token access

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