DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Citus vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SiteWhere vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Citus vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SiteWhere vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server 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 hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#118	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.32
Rank	#162	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.citusdata.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.citusdata.com

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Sybase, SAP

SiteWhere

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2012

2010

1993

2010

2018

Current release

8.1, December 2018

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

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

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Synchronous 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

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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