DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. etcd vs. HEAVY.AI vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. etcd vs. HEAVY.AI vs. TerminusDB

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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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
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Score	7.25
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

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

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

docs.heavy.ai

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2016

2018

Current release

3.4, August 2019

5.10, January 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

Multi-source replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

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 journaling

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

Role-based access control

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