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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Elasticsearch vs. HBase vs. Heroic vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

hbase.apache.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

hbase.apache.org/book.html

spotify.github.io/heroic

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Elastic

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Spotify

quasardb

Initial release

2012

2010

2008

2014

2009

Current release

8.6, January 2023

2.3.4, January 2021

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

integer and binary

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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