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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. ArangoDB vs. gStore vs. Infobright

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsAnalytic DBMS for HadoopNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score17.94
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score3.32
Rank#90  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#359  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#18  RDF stores
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftimpala.apache.orgarangodb.comen.gstore.cnignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdb
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.arangodb.comen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocs
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DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaArangoDB Inc.Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.
Initial release20122013201220162005
Current release4.1.0, June 20223.11.5, November 20231.2, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availableOpen Source infoBSDcommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++C++C
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used instead
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceJavaScriptyesno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infosince version 2.0none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication with configurable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoconfigurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnoyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosyesUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities
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Amazon RedshiftApache ImpalaArangoDBgStoreInfobright
Specific characteristicsGraph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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Competitive advantagesConsolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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Typical application scenariosNative multi-model in ArangoDB is being used for a broad range of projects across...
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Key customersCisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Market metricsArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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Licensing and pricing modelsVery permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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