DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Sadas Engine vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Sadas Engine vs. YDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#266	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

www.sadasengine.com

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.heavy.ai

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Kyligence, Inc.

SADAS s.r.l.

Yandex

Initial release

2012

2016

2006

2019

Current release

5.10, January 2022

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

none

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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