DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Bangdb vs. Blueflood vs. H2GIS vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Bangdb vs. Blueflood vs. H2GIS vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Spatial extension of H2

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

bangdb.com

blueflood.io

www.h2gis.org

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.bangdb.com

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Rackspace

CNRS

Initial release

2012

2013

2009

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

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 support with command line tool

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Java

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

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

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

based on H2

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

optional

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)

yes

based on H2

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