DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Infobright vs. PouchDB vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Infobright vs. PouchDB vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.hawkular.org

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

pouchdb.com

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Community supported by Red Hat

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2014

2005

2012

2017

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

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

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Role-based access control

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