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DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Blazegraph vs. KairosDB vs. MonetDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Blazegraph vs. KairosDB vs. MonetDB vs. RocksDB

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  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.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A relational database management system that stores data in columnsEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score19.03
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score0.77
Rank#222  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.71
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score4.00
Rank#84  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftblazegraph.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.monetdb.orgrocksdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftwiki.blazegraph.comkairosdb.github.iowww.monetdb.org/­Documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)BlazegraphMonetDB BVFacebook, Inc.
Initial release20122006201320042013
Current release2.1.5, March 20191.2.2, November 2018Dec2023 (11.49), December 20238.11.4, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCJavaJavaCC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesno
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 indexesrestrictedyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSPARQL is used as query languagenoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonyesnoyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding via remote tableshorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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)simple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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