DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. BoltDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BoltDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.postgres-xl.org

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

Initial release

2012

2013

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2013

2010

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

8.11.4, April 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

yes

ACID

MVCC

yes

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

yes

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