DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. EXASOL vs. Hive vs. OrigoDB vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. EXASOL vs. Hive vs. OrigoDB vs. TigerGraph

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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.

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	1.76
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Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.exasol.com/resources

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

origodb.com/docs

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Exasol

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2012

2000

2012

2009

under the name LiveDB

2017

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

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

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
Lua
Python
R

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

depending on model

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Role based authorization

Role-based access control

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