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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Dgraph vs. Elasticsearch vs. EsgynDB vs. TDengine

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

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

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.48
Rank	#158	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	134.78
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.23
Rank	#319	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#109	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

dgraph.io

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

dgraph.io/docs

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Elastic

Esgyn

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2012

2016

2010

2015

2019

Current release

8.6, January 2023

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes, via alarm monitoring

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

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

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

Memcached and Redis integration

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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