DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. Blazegraph

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. Blazegraph

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Name

Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Graph DBMS
RDF store

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.75
Rank	#219	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigobject.io

blazegraph.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.bigobject.io

wiki.blazegraph.com

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

BigObject, Inc.

Blazegraph

Initial release

2012

2015

2006

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

RDF literal types

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SPARQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Lua

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Relationships in Graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

Access managed on TSDB instance level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

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