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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Stardog vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

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

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

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

www.stardog.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.stardog.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Amazon

SAP

formerly Sybase

Stardog-Union

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2007

1992

2010

2018

Current release

17, July 2015

7.3.0, May 2020

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

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

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Role-based access control

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