DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Blazegraph vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Blazegraph vs. MonetDB

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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 fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/redshift

blazegraph.com

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

wiki.blazegraph.com

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Blazegraph

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2016

2012

2006

2004

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

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

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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