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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. EXASOL vs. RDFox vs. SwayDB

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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.

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.exasol.com

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Exasol

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2012

2000

2017

2018

Current release

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

replication via a shared file system

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

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

Roles, resources, and access types

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