DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. HugeGraph vs. IRONdb vs. Kinetica

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. HugeGraph vs. IRONdb vs. Kinetica

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.kinetica.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

docs.kinetica.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Baidu

Circonus LLC.

Kinetica

Initial release

2012

2018

2017

2012

Current release

0.9

V0.10.20, January 2018

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Groovy
Java
Python

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes, in Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

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

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Source-replica replication

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

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

edges in graph

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 capabilities

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

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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