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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Blueflood vs. Elasticsearch vs. gStore

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

blueflood.io

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

en.gstore.cn

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Rackspace

Elastic

Initial release

2012

2013

2010

2016

Current release

8.6, January 2023

1.2, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

Memcached and Redis integration

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

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