DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. MonetDB vs. NebulaGraph vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. MonetDB vs. NebulaGraph vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.monetdb.org

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.nebula-graph.io

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

MonetDB BV

Vesoft Inc.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2012

2004

2019

2001

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

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++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

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

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like query language

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes, in SQL, C, R

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

Role-based access control

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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