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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Tarantool vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

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

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

Document store
RDF store

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.67
Rank	#143	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.tarantool.io

terminusdb.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

DataChemist Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

2008

2018

2011

Current release

2.10.0, May 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Open binary protocol

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

.Net

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

JavaScript
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

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

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

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

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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