DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. GBase vs. Graph Engine vs. Milvus vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. GBase vs. Graph Engine vs. Milvus vs. Realm

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Vector DBMS

Document store

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

realm.io/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Microsoft

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2012

2004

2010

2019

2014

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.4.4, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

.NET and C

C++, Go

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

.NET

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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