DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Geode vs. Graph Engine vs. Spark SQL vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Geode vs. Graph Engine vs. Spark SQL vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

geode.apache.org

www.graphengine.io

spark.apache.org/sql

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

geode.apache.org/docs

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2012

2002

2010

2014

2016

Current release

1.1, February 2017

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

.NET and C

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

.NET

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Java
Python
R
Scala

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights per client and object definable

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