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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon Redshift vs. LevelDB vs. Qdrant vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/google/leveldb

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/CHAP_Aurora.html

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

Amazon

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Google

Qdrant

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2015

2012

2011

2021

1993

Current release

1.23, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

yes

restricted

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

Collection-level replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

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

with automatic compression on writes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Key-based authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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