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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. ArangoDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Memgraph

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Native multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.

In-memory caching system

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	3.26
Rank	#88	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

arangodb.com

cachelot.io

memgraph.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.arangodb.com

memgraph.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

ArangoDB Inc.

Memgraph Ltd

Initial release

2012

2015

2017

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream

Memcached protocol

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

since version 2.0

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

configurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

yes

Users, roles and permissions

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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