DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. etcd vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. NebulaGraph vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. etcd vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. NebulaGraph vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A distributed reliable key-value store

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

docs.nebula-graph.io

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

IBM

Vesoft Inc.

Initial release

2012

2017

2019

2009

Current release

3.4, August 2019

2.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Strong typed schema

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

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

TinkerPop 3

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

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

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.

Active-active shard replication

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

using RocksDB

optional

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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Licensing and pricing models

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