DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. HBase vs. InfluxDB vs. Infobright vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. HBase vs. InfluxDB vs. Infobright vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

hbase.apache.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

siridb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Cesbit

Initial release

2012

2008

2013

2005

2017

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

2.7.6, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

Numeric data and Strings

yes

Numeric data

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Source-replica replication

yes

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

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

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

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

simple rights management via user accounts

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