DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. MonetDB vs. RDFox vs. TerminusDB vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. MonetDB vs. RDFox vs. TerminusDB vs. Warp 10

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
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Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.monetdb.org

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

terminusdb.com

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

MonetDB BV

Oxford Semantic Technologies

DataChemist Ltd.

SenX

Initial release

2012

2004

2017

2018

2015

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

6.0, Septermber 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

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

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

C
Java

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

replication via a shared file system

Journaling Streams

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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