DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Memgraph vs. RDFox vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Memgraph vs. RDFox vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	17.94
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Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
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Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

memgraph.com

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

memgraph.com/docs

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Social network pages

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Memgraph Ltd

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2017

2014

Current release

6.0, Septermber 2022

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

RDF schemas

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

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

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
Java

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

replication via a shared file system

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

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

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Users, roles and permissions

Roles, resources, and access types

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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