DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. ArcadeDB vs. HugeGraph vs. Snowflake vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. ArcadeDB vs. HugeGraph vs. Snowflake vs. WakandaDB

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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

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

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Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

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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	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

arcadedb.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.snowflake.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.arcadedb.com

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Arcade Data

Baidu

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2021

2018

2014

2012

Current release

September 2021

0.9

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Unix

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

also supports composite index and range index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

Groovy
Java
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

Users, roles and permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

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