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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Derby vs. Memgraph vs. PostgreSQL vs. StarRocks

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonPostgreSQL  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jWidely used open source RDBMS infoDeveloped as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQLAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache Doris
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS infowith object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS infowith pgvector extension
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Score16.88
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score636.25
Rank#4  Overall
#4  Relational DBMS
Score0.93
Rank#198  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftdb.apache.org/­derbymemgraph.comwww.postgresql.orgwww.starrocks.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlmemgraph.com/­docswww.postgresql.org/­docsdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Apache Software FoundationMemgraph LtdPostgreSQL Global Development Group infowww.postgresql.org/­developerThe Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023
Initial release2012199720171989 info1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL2020
Current release10.17.1.0, November 202316.3, May 20243.3, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC and C++CC++, Java
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinuxFreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-free and schema-optionalyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.no
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardyesnoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBCBolt protocol
Cypher query language
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
MySQL protocol
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJava.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PythonJava Stored Proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.user defined functions
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infodynamic graph partitioningpartitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hashhorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using RAFTSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensions
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemyesyes inforelationships in graphsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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