DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. EsgynDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. EsgynDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RDF4J

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

A multi-model DBMS and application server

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

RDF store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org

www.esgyn.cn

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.intersystems.com

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Esgyn

InterSystems

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2012

2013

2015

1997

2004

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

2018.1.4, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C#
C++
Java

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

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

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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