DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. H2 vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. H2 vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Valentina Server

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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.

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Trend Chart

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	32.67
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#313	Overall
	#140	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.h2database.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Thomas Mueller

SAP, Sybase

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2012

2005

1987

1999

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

16.0

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

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

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Java and Transact-SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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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