DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. EXASOL vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. EXASOL vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage 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.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

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

Primary database model

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.exasol.com

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

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Exasol

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2000

1991

2012

2017

Current release

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

RESTful HTTP API

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

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

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

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

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

optimistic locking

ACID

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Role-based access control

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