DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Kylin vs. MaxDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Kylin vs. MaxDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Sadas Engine

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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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#175	Overall
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Score	2.65
Rank	#111	Overall
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Score	2.02
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Score	0.03
Rank	#379	Overall
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Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

kylin.apache.org

maxdb.sap.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

kylin.apache.org/docs

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Oracle

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2012

2015

1984

2007

2006

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

7.9.10.12, February 2024

14.1, August 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate 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

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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