DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. FeatureBase vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. HarperDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. FeatureBase vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. HarperDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

HarperDB takes the "stack" out of "tech stack" by combining an ultra-fast document-style data store, in-memory cache, real-time message broker, and your application components into a single distributed technology.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#296	Overall
	#134	Relational DBMS

Score	2.97
Rank	#92	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	5.19
Rank	#62	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#243	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.featurebase.com

cloud.google.com/bigtable

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.harperdb.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.featurebase.com

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.harperdb.io/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Google

Chris Davis

HarperDB

Initial release

2012

2017

2015

2006

2017

Current release

2022, May 2022

3.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free community edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Node.js

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

hosted

Linux
Unix

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

JSON data types

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

SQL queries

SQL-like data manipulation statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
Python

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

none

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

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 (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

none

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

yes

Atomic single-row operations

Atomic execution of specific operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using Linux fsync

yes

yes, using LMDB

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles

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