DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Kylin vs. Faircom EDGE vs. H2 vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Kylin vs. Faircom EDGE vs. H2 vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.25
Rank	#170	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#362	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#155	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

kylin.apache.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.h2database.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

FairCom Corporation

Thomas Mueller

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2015

1979

2005

2011

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

V3, October 2020

2.2.220, July 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

Java

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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