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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Drill vs. InfluxDB vs. Memgraph

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#119	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	26.56
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.00
Rank	#102	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

drill.apache.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

memgraph.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

memgraph.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Memgraph Ltd

Initial release

2012

2013

2017

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

2.7.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Free license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Multi-source replication using RAFT

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Depending on the underlying data source

simple rights management via user accounts

Users, roles and permissions

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