DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. SQream DB

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Well established RDBMS

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigobject.io

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

sqream.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.bigobject.io

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

BigObject, Inc.

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Actian Corporation

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2012

2015

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2017

Current release

11.2, May 2022

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (https)

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Lua

yes

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Ingres Replicator

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

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

token access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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