DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. Blazegraph vs. Infobright vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. Blazegraph vs. Infobright vs. RDFox

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Name

Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.75
Rank	#219	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org

blazegraph.com

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

wiki.blazegraph.com

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Blazegraph

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2012

2013

2006

2005

2017

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

2.1.5, March 2019

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

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

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

Source-replica replication

replication via a shared file system

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

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

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, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Roles, resources, and access types

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