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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. HyperSQL vs. InfluxDB vs. JanusGraph

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

hsqldb.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

janusgraph.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.janusgraph.org

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Initial release

2012

2001

2013

2017

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

2.7.6, April 2024

0.6.3, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

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

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate 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

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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

simple rights management via user accounts

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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