DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Drizzle vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Drizzle vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Trafodion

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

IBM

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2012

2008

2017

2014

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2.0

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Active-active shard replication

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared 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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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