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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Ingres vs. OpenQM vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Well established RDBMS

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
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Score	3.63
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#291	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#152	Overall
	#14	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

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

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Actian Corporation

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

2012

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1993

2017

Current release

12.0, July 2024

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

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

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

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

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Ingres Replicator

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

MVCC

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role-based access control

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