DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. DataFS vs. Graph Engine vs. Hypertable vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. DataFS vs. Graph Engine vs. Hypertable vs. Weaviate

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Wide column store

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

newdatabase.com

www.graphengine.io

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Mobiland AG

Microsoft

Hypertable Inc.

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2012

2018

2010

2009

2019

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

0.9.8.11, March 2016

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

.NET

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Data scheme

yes

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

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

only exact value or prefix value scans

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

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Proprietary Sharding system

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

Windows-Profile

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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