DBMS > Amazon Neptune vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. EsgynDB vs. Interbase

System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. EsgynDB vs. Interbase

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Name

Description

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.29
Rank	#113	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org

www.esgyn.cn

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Developer

Amazon

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Esgyn

Embarcadero

Initial release

2017

2012

2015

1984

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.

yes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Interbase Change Views

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

Multiversion concurreny control

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with encyption-at-rest

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 for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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