DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Bangdb vs. GigaSpaces vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Bangdb vs. GigaSpaces vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

bangdb.com

www.gigaspaces.com

origodb.com

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

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.bangdb.com

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

origodb.com/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Gigaspaces Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2000

2009

under the name LiveDB

1992

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

15.5, September 2020

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

can be achieved using .NET

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

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

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes (enterprise version only)

Role-based access control

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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