DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Blueflood vs. Memgraph vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Blueflood vs. Memgraph vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

blueflood.io

memgraph.com

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

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

memgraph.com/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Social network pages

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Rackspace

Memgraph Ltd

SAP

formerly Sybase

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2012

2013

2017

1992

2020

Current release

17, July 2015

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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