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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Databricks vs. JanusGraph vs. KairosDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

The Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	81.08
Rank	#15	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.databricks.com

janusgraph.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.databricks.com

docs.janusgraph.org

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Databricks

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Initial release

2012

2013

2017

2013

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

with Databricks SQL

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Python
R
Scala

Clojure
Java
Python

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

simple password-based access control

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