DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Blazegraph vs. Geode vs. MonetDB vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Blazegraph vs. Geode vs. MonetDB vs. Riak KV

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Name

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

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.

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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.75
Rank	#219	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

blazegraph.com

geode.apache.org

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

wiki.blazegraph.com

geode.apache.org/docs

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Blazegraph

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

MonetDB BV

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2012

2006

2002

2004

2009

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

1.1, February 2017

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions

yes, in SQL, C, R

Erlang

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

links between data sets can be stored

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

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

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

Access rights per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

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