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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. ArangoDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. EsgynDB vs. MariaDB

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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.

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

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

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	3.32
Rank	#90	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	0.32
Rank	#283	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

arangodb.com

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

www.esgyn.cn

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.arangodb.com

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

Social network pages

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

ArangoDB Inc.

Cloudflare

Esgyn

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Initial release

2012

2018

2015

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

11.3.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

with proprietary extensions

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

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

JavaScript

Java Stored Procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

since version 2.0

Sharding

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

yes

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)

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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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Licensing and pricing models

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