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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. HEAVY.AI vs. HugeGraph vs. InfluxDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.heavy.ai

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Baidu

Initial release

2012

2016

2018

2013

Current release

5.10, January 2022

0.9

2.7.6, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

yes

also supports composite index and range index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Groovy
Java
Python

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

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

yes

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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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

simple rights management via user accounts

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