DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. DuckDB vs. Fauna vs. Hazelcast vs. Kinetica

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. DuckDB vs. Fauna vs. Hazelcast vs. Kinetica

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	4.63
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#151	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

duckdb.org/docs

docs.fauna.com

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.kinetica.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Fauna, Inc.

Hazelcast

Kinetica

Initial release

2012

2018

2014

2008

2012

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

5.3.6, November 2023

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Java

C, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

Replicated Map

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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