DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Kinetica vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Kinetica vs. Vitess

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.17
Rank	#320	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#261	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#202	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.kinetica.com

vitess.io

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.kinetica.com

vitess.io/docs

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Kinetica

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2016

2012

2013

Current release

2.1, December 2018

7.1, August 2021

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

depending on used data model

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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