DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Hypertable vs. Ignite vs. Percona Server for MySQL

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Hypertable vs. Ignite vs. Percona Server for MySQL

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

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.

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

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

Score	2.03
Rank	#122	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

ignite.apache.org

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Hypertable Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Percona

Initial release

2012

2009

2015

2008

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

Apache Ignite 2.6

8.0.36-28, 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java, .Net

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Thrift

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

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

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

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

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

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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