DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. ArangoDB vs. gStore vs. RethinkDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. ArangoDB vs. gStore vs. RethinkDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

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 native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

arangodb.com

en.gstore.cn

rethinkdb.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.arangodb.com

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

rethinkdb.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

ArangoDB Inc.

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2012

2016

2009

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

1.2, November 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

yes

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 API
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

since version 2.0

Sharding

range based

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

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)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

yes

users and table-level permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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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