DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Blueflood vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Blueflood vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. VelocityDB

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#353	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#347	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

blueflood.io

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

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Rackspace

SAP

formerly Sybase

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

2013

1992

2011

Current release

17, July 2015

7.x

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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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

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

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

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

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

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

Based on Windows Authentication

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