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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Kylin vs. Databend vs. NebulaGraph

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.25
Rank	#170	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#283	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	2.23
Rank	#116	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

kylin.apache.org

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

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

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.databend.com

docs.nebula-graph.io

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Databend Labs

Vesoft Inc.

Initial release

2012

2015

2021

2019

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

1.0.59, April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted
Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

Role-based access control

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Licensing and pricing models

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