DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Hazelcast vs. Ignite vs. Kdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Hazelcast vs. Ignite vs. Kdb

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

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.

High performance Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Relational DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#49	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

hazelcast.com

ignite.apache.org

kx.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

code.kx.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Hazelcast

Apache Software Foundation

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Initial release

2012

2008

2015

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

Apache Ignite 2.6

3.6, May 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free 32-bit version

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java, .Net

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

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

SQL-like query language (q)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

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

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

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

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Events

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

with views

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

rights management via user accounts

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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