DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. EXASOL vs. HEAVY.AI vs. TigerGraph vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. EXASOL vs. HEAVY.AI vs. TigerGraph vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.exasol.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.tigergraph.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.heavy.ai

docs.tigergraph.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Exasol

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Rocket Software

Initial release

2012

2000

2016

2017

1985

Current release

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
Lua
Python
R

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C++
Java

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

configurable

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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