DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Drizzle vs. OrientDB vs. Spark SQL vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Drizzle vs. OrientDB vs. Spark SQL vs. Valentina Server

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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.

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.

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

orientdb.org

spark.apache.org/sql

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Apache Software Foundation

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2012

2008

2010

2014

1999

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

3.2.29, March 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
Python
R
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java, Javascript

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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