DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Derby vs. FeatureBase vs. Hawkular Metrics

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Derby vs. FeatureBase vs. Hawkular Metrics

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#309	Overall
	#139	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

db.apache.org/derby

www.featurebase.com

www.hawkular.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

docs.featurebase.com

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Community supported by Red Hat

Initial release

2012

1997

2017

2014

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

2022, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

SQL queries

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

Java
Python

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

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

yes, using Linux fsync

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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