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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. Newts vs. Sphinx

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionTime Series DBMS based on CassandraOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score19.03
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#158  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#319  Overall
#141  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftdgraph.iowww.esgyn.cnopennms.github.io/­newtssphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdgraph.io/­docsgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikisphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Dgraph Labs, Inc.EsgynOpenNMS GroupSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20122016201520142001
Current release3.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCGoC++, JavaJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardnoyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Java API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJavaC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PythonnoJava Stored Proceduresnono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replication between multi datacentersselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoPlanned for future releasesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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