DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Blazegraph vs. H2GIS vs. InfluxDB vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Blazegraph vs. H2GIS vs. InfluxDB vs. STSdb

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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.

Spatial extension of H2

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Trend Chart

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.81
Rank	#213	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

blazegraph.com

www.h2gis.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

wiki.blazegraph.com

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Blazegraph

CNRS

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2006

2013

2011

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

2.7.6, April 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

yes

based on H2

simple rights management via user accounts

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