DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Ehcache vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. searchxml vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Ehcache vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. searchxml vs. VelocityDB

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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

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.ehcache.org

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

www.searchxml.net/category/products

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Sybase, SAP

informationpartners gmbh

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

2009

1993

2015

2011

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

1.0

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Windows

Any that supports .NET

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

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JCache

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

.Net

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

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

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Based on Windows Authentication

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