DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Blazegraph vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SingleStore vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Blazegraph vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SingleStore vs. SpaceTime

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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.

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational 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	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

blazegraph.com

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.singlestore.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

wiki.blazegraph.com

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Blazegraph

Percona

SingleStore Inc.

Mireo

Initial release

2012

2006

2015

2013

2020

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Go

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

proprietary protocol using JSON

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

hash partitioning

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Relationships in Graphs

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

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Access rights for users and roles

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

yes

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