DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Memcached vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Memcached vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

In-memory caching system

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#302	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	16.84
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

cachelot.io

www.memcached.org

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cambridge Semantics

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

8Kdata

Initial release

2012

2018

2015

2003

2016

Current release

2.3, January 2021

1.6.29, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Memcached protocol

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions and aggregates

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

not needed in graphs

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

Access rights for users and roles

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Access rights for users and roles

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