DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. EJDB vs. Hypertable vs. Newts vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. EJDB vs. Hypertable vs. Newts vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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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)

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

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

Primary database model

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

opennms.github.io/newts

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

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Softmotions

Hypertable Inc.

OpenNMS Group

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2012

2009

2014

1993

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

in-process shared library

C++ API
Thrift

HTTP REST
Java API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

selectable replication factor on file system level

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

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