DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Blazegraph vs. Cassandra vs. FoundationDB vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Blazegraph vs. Cassandra vs. FoundationDB vs. MonetDB

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Name

Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB info

Optimized for write access

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Wide column store

Document store info

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS info

supported via specific SQL-layer

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	20.27
Rank	#31	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#189	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	119.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.70
Rank	#177	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#31	Key-value stores
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.71
Rank	#120	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

wiki.blazegraph.com

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

apple.github.io/foundationdb

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Blazegraph

Apache Software Foundation info

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

FoundationDB

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2012

2006

2008

2013

2004

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

3.11.6, February 2020

6.2.11, November 2019

Nov2019-SP1, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source info

extended commercial license available

Open Source info

Apache version 2

Open Source info

Apache 2.0

Open Source info

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free info

some layers support schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

some layers support typing

yes

XML support info

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

restricted info

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

Proprietary protocol info

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

JDBC
native C library info

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript info

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript info

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

user defined functions info

in Python

yes

in SQL-layer only

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor info

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

none

Master-slave replication available in experimental status

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency info

can be individually decided for each write operation

Linearizable consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Relationships in Graphs

in SQL-layer only

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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

yes

User concepts info

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Column-store In-memory optimized GeoSpatial support JSON document support
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Competitive advantages

No single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Scalable architecture - vertical data organization and in-memory optimization guarantee...
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Typical application scenarios

Internet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Analytical database, Data warehouse, OLAP Data mining Scientific database
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Key customers

Apple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Numascale , Spinque , SecurActive , CHS , NOZHUP
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Market metrics

Cassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing models

Apache licenseÂ Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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Free and open-source software, Mozilla Public License 2.0 Commercial support available
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News

Blazegraph 2.1.4 Release
29 August 2016

Blazegraph 2.1.2 Release
18 June 2016

Blazegraph 2.1.1 Release!
9 June 2016

Blazegraph 2.1.0 Release!
8 April 2016

Blazegraph 2.0.0 Release!
22 December 2015

Optimistic Concurrency Control in MonetDB
3 January 2020

Limit memory usage of MonetDB on Linux with CGROUPS
9 May 2019

SQL:2003 merge statements now supported in MonetDB
8 March 2019

Extended SQL:2011 Window Functions in MonetDB
26 February 2019

Updatable MERGE TABLEs with partition predicates
26 February 2019

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