DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. GridDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. GridDB vs. IBM Cloudant 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

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#302	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	1.91
Rank	#123	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

griddb.net

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

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

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

docs.griddb.net

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cambridge Semantics

Toshiba Corporation

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2012

2018

2013

2010

1993

Current release

2.3, January 2021

5.1, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
Python

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions and aggregates

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

not needed in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID at container level

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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