DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Graphite vs. Hypertable vs. JanusGraph vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Graphite vs. Hypertable vs. JanusGraph vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

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

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

janusgraph.org

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.janusgraph.org

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Chris Davis

Hypertable Inc.

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

2006

2009

2017

2011

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

0.6.3, February 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Sockets

C++ API
Thrift

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

.Net

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate 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

locking

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

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Based on Windows Authentication

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