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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. InfinityDB vs. OrientDB vs. TerminusDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

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

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

boilerbay.com

orientdb.org

terminusdb.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Boiler Bay Inc.

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

DataChemist Ltd.

Rocket Software

Initial release

2012

2002

2010

2018

1985

Current release

4.0

3.2.29, March 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

optional

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript
Python

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java, Javascript

yes

Triggers

Hooks

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication

Journaling Streams

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Role-based access control

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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