DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. DolphinDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graph Engine vs. Memgraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. DolphinDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graph Engine vs. Memgraph

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.dolphindb.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.graphengine.io

memgraph.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

memgraph.com/docs

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Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

DolphinDB, Inc

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Microsoft

Memgraph Ltd

Initial release

2012

2018

2012

2010

2017

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

.NET and C

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

hosted

.NET

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Users, roles and permissions

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