DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. GeoMesa vs. NebulaGraph vs. Oracle vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. GeoMesa vs. NebulaGraph vs. Oracle vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Widely used RDBMS

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

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

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.23
Rank	#116	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.geomesa.org

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

www.oracle.com/database

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

docs.nebula-graph.io

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

CCRi and others

Vesoft Inc.

Oracle

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2012

2014

2019

1980

2006

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

23c, September 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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)

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on storage layer

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate 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

depending on storage layer

yes

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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