DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Dgraph vs. Dragonfly vs. EsgynDB vs. etcd

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Dgraph vs. Dragonfly vs. EsgynDB vs. etcd

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

A distributed reliable key-value store

Primary database model

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#261	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	7.03
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

dgraph.io

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

www.esgyn.cn

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

dgraph.io/docs

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Esgyn

Initial release

2012

2016

2023

2015

Current release

1.0, March 2023

3.4, August 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

scheme-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Lua

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes, watching key changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

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

Immediate 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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

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

Planned for future releases

Password-based authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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