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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. HBase vs. Spark SQL

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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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

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Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	31.25
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	19.15
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

hbase.apache.org

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

hbase.apache.org/book.html

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2008

2014

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Java
Python
R
Scala

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

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

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)

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

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

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