DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. OrientDB vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. OrientDB vs. Warp 10

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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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
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Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

google.github.io/lovefield

orientdb.org

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.heavy.ai

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Google

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

SenX

Initial release

2012

2016

2014

2010

2015

Current release

5.10, January 2022

2.1.12, February 2017

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java, Javascript

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

relationship 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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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