DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Blueflood vs. Dolt vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Blueflood vs. Dolt vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

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

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	1.32
Rank	#162	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

blueflood.io

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

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

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.dolthub.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Rackspace

DoltHub Inc

SAP

formerly Sybase

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2012

2013

2018

1992

2018

Current release

17, July 2015

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

CLI Client
HTTP REST

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

currently in alpha release

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Synchronous 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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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