DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Databricks vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Databricks vs. YTsaurus

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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.

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	81.08
Rank	#15	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.databricks.com

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.databricks.com

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Databricks

Yandex

Initial release

2012

2013

2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

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

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

with Databricks SQL

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Python
R
Scala

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions and aggregates

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate 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

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 Control Lists

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Specific characteristics

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