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

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

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  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.
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.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Port of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
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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
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftblazegraph.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantorientdb.orgsql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftwiki.blazegraph.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)BlazegraphIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20122006201020102012
Current release2.1.5, March 20193.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageCJavaErlangJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesnoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSPARQL is used as query languagenoSQL-like query language, no joinsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
RESTful HTTP/JSON APITinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PythonyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptJava, Javascriptno
TriggersnonoyesHooksno
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 replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
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 Graphsnoyes inforelationship in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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)Access rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableno

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