DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NSDb

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NSDb

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

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Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#145	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#339	Overall
	#33	Graph DBMS

Score	22.71
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.datomic.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.datomic.com

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cognitect

Baidu

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2018

2016

2017

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Unix

hosted

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

also supports composite index and range index

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
Java

Groovy
Java
Python

C#
Java
PHP

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Transaction Functions

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Transact SQL

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

edges in graph

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

Using Apache Lucene

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

yes

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