DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Kingbase vs. RDFox vs. SwayDB vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Kingbase vs. RDFox vs. SwayDB vs. TiDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

swaydb.simer.au

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Simer Plaha

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2012

1999

2017

2018

2016

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

6.0, Septermber 2022

8.1.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++

Scala

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C
Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

replication via a shared file system

none

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

full support since version 6.6

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Roles, resources, and access types

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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