DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NSDb vs. SAP Adaptive Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NSDb vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

basex.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

nsdb.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.basex.org

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

nsdb.io/Architecture

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

BaseX GmbH

Microsoft

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

2012

2007

2015

2017

1987

Current release

10.7, August 2023

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Java
Scala

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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