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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Spark SQL vs. TerminusDB vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

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

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

spark.apache.org/sql

terminusdb.com

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

DataChemist Ltd.

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2012

2014

2018

2020

Current release

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache Version 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

Scala

Prolog, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
Python
R
Scala

JavaScript
Python

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Graph Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Journaling Streams

none

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

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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