DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. JanusGraph vs. NSDb vs. RethinkDB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. JanusGraph vs. NSDb vs. RethinkDB vs. Valentina Server

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Name

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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#135	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#106	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#329	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.janusgraph.org

nsdb.io/Architecture

rethinkdb.com/docs

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2012

2017

2009

1999

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
Java
Python

Java
Scala

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

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

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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 single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Using Apache Lucene

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

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

yes

users and table-level permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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