DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. EJDB vs. Hazelcast vs. TimesTen vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. EJDB vs. Hazelcast vs. TimesTen vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza 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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

hazelcast.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

yanza.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Softmotions

Hazelcast

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Yanza

Initial release

2012

2008

1998

2015

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

in-process shared library

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

Replicated Map

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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