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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Dgraph vs. SingleStore vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

dgraph.io

www.singlestore.com

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

dgraph.io/docs

docs.singlestore.com

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

SingleStore Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2012

2016

2013

2022

Current release

8.5, January 2024

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Go

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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