DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Databricks vs. Graph Engine vs. OpenTSDB vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Databricks vs. Graph Engine vs. OpenTSDB vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

The Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	76.33
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	1.73
Rank	#147	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#377	Overall
	#58	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.databricks.com

www.graphengine.io

opentsdb.net

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.databricks.com

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Databricks

Microsoft

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2012

2013

2010

2011

2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

.NET

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

with Databricks SQL

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Telnet API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Python
R
Scala

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

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