DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. HugeGraph vs. Interbase

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. HugeGraph vs. Interbase

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Baidu

Embarcadero

Initial release

2012

2013

2018

1984

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

0.9

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Unix

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

also supports composite index and range index

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Groovy
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Interbase Change Views

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

via hugegraph-spark

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

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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