DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. GBase vs. HBase vs. Ignite vs. ScyllaDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. GBase vs. HBase vs. Ignite vs. ScyllaDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

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

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

hbase.apache.org/book.html

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Apache Software Foundation

ScyllaDB

Initial release

2012

2004

2008

2015

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.3.4, January 2021

Apache Ignite 2.6

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Standard with numerous extensions

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes (replicated cache)

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Competitive advantages

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