DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. Ehcache vs. Manticore Search vs. NebulaGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. Ehcache vs. Manticore Search vs. NebulaGraph

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Name

Description

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

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	2.14
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org

www.ehcache.org

manticoresearch.com

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.ehcache.org/documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.nebula-graph.io

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Manticore Software

Vesoft Inc.

Initial release

2012

2009

2017

2019

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

3.10.0, March 2022

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

Fixed schema

Strong typed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JCache

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Java

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

using RocksDB

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

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

Role-based access control

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Licensing and pricing models

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