DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. FileMaker vs. NebulaGraph vs. Oracle vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. FileMaker vs. NebulaGraph vs. Oracle vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Widely used RDBMS

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

www.oracle.com/database

rockset.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.nebula-graph.io

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Vesoft Inc.

Oracle

Rockset

Initial release

2012

1983

2019

1980

2019

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

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++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

yes

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

PHP

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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