DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. ArangoDB vs. Hazelcast vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OrientDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. ArangoDB vs. Hazelcast vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OrientDB

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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 widely adopted in-memory data grid

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

arangodb.com

hazelcast.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.arangodb.com

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.heavy.ai

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Social network pages

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

ArangoDB Inc.

Hazelcast

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2012

2008

2016

2010

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

5.3.6, November 2023

5.10, January 2022

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language, no joins

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

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

JavaScript

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Events

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

since version 2.0

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

yes

Replicated Map

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

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)

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

yes

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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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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