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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. JanusGraph vs. Kinetica vs. Sqrrl

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.85
Rank	#134	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#261	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

janusgraph.org

www.kinetica.com

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.janusgraph.org

docs.kinetica.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Kinetica

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2017

2012

Current release

1.0.0, October 2023

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
Java
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

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

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

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

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

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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