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DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Blazegraph vs. Drizzle vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Blazegraph vs. Drizzle vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SQL.JS

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score16.88
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftblazegraph.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantsql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftwiki.blazegraph.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)BlazegraphDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20122006200820102012
Current release2.1.5, March 20197.2.4, September 2012
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageCJavaC++ErlangJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSPARQL is used as query languageyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBCRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PHP
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PythonyesnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersnonono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Pluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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