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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. FatDB vs. Memgraph vs. RRDtool

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

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

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

memgraph.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

memgraph.com/docs

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

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Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

FatCloud

Memgraph Ltd

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2012

2017

1999

Current release

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Linux

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Via inetgration in SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

via applications

Triggers

yes

via applications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication using RAFT

none

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
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

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

with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Users, roles and permissions

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