DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. GBase vs. Ignite vs. JanusGraph vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. GBase vs. Ignite vs. JanusGraph vs. VictoriaMetrics

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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.

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	1.23
Rank	#172	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

docs.janusgraph.org

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2012

2004

2015

2017

2018

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

Apache Ignite 2.6

0.6.3, February 2023

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++, Java, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Standard with numerous extensions

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Sharding

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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

yes

Security Hooks for custom implementations

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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