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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP HANA vs. Sphinx

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsAnalytic DBMS for HadoopExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score16.88
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score44.27
Rank#23  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftimpala.apache.orgobjectbox.iowww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.objectbox.iohelp.sap.com/­hanasphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaObjectBox LimitedSAPSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20122013201720102001
Current release4.1.0, June 20222.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono infoalso available as a cloud based serviceno
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Implementation languageCC++C and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Appliance or cloud-serviceFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoSQLScript, Rno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneyesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factoronline/offline synchronization between client and serveryesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosyesyesno
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