DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Newts vs. Oracle vs. Riak KV vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Newts vs. Oracle vs. Riak KV vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Widely used RDBMS

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

opennms.github.io/newts

www.oracle.com/database

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

OpenNMS Group

Oracle

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2012

2014

1980

2009

Current release

23c, September 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

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