DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Datomic vs. EXASOL vs. NSDb

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Datomic vs. EXASOL vs. NSDb

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Name

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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#307	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.datomic.com

www.exasol.com

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

docs.datomic.com

www.exasol.com/resources

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cambridge Semantics

Cognitect

Exasol

Initial release

2012

2018

2012

2000

2017

Current release

2.3, January 2021

1.0.6735, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

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

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
Python

Clojure
Java

Java
Lua
Python
R

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

not needed in graphs

yes

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

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

Using Apache Lucene

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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