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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Hive vs. Kingbase vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

hive.apache.org

www.kingbase.com.cn

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Splice Machine

Initial release

2012

1999

2014

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

V8.0, August 2021

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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 rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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