DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Blueflood vs. IRONdb vs. LeanXcale vs. SAP Adaptive Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Blueflood vs. IRONdb vs. LeanXcale vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name

IRONdb 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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

blueflood.io

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.leanxcale.com

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

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Rackspace

Circonus LLC.

LeanXcale

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

2012

2013

2017

2015

1987

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

HTTP API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

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

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
Java
Scala

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes, in Lua

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Automatic, metric affinity per node

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

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

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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