DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Derby vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Qdrant vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Derby vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Qdrant vs. RDFox

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

db.apache.org/derby

www.hawkular.org

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

qdrant.tech/documentation

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Community supported by Red Hat

Qdrant

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2012

1997

2014

2021

2017

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

HTTP REST

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Collection-level replication

replication via a shared file system

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

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

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

Key-based authentication

Roles, resources, and access types

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