DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Blueflood vs. H2 vs. SAP IQ vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Blueflood vs. H2 vs. SAP IQ vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

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

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

blueflood.io

www.h2database.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

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

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Rackspace

Thomas Mueller

SAP, formerly Sybase

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2013

2005

1994

1992

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

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

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (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

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