DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Blueflood vs. Dolt vs. Warp 10 vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Blueflood vs. Dolt vs. Warp 10 vs. Weaviate

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

blueflood.io

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

www.warp10.io

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.dolthub.com

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Rackspace

DoltHub Inc

SenX

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2012

2013

2018

2015

2019

Current release

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

CLI Client
HTTP REST

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

currently in alpha release

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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