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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. ArcadeDB vs. Bangdb vs. Geode vs. OrientDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

in next version

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#358	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#52	Key-value stores
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.arcadedb.com

docs.bangdb.com

geode.apache.org/docs

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

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Arcade Data

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2012

2021

2012

2002

2010

Current release

September 2021

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

1.1, February 2017

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

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

Data scheme

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

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

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

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights per client and object definable

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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