DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. H2 vs. HyperSQL vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. H2 vs. HyperSQL vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.h2database.com

hsqldb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Thomas Mueller

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2005

2001

1994

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

2.7.2, June 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

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