DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Redshift vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Redshift vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

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

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.24
Rank	#310	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#323	Overall
	#28	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

SAP

formerly Sybase

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2012

1992

2018

Current release

17, July 2015

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Journaling Streams

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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