DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Heroic vs. HugeGraph vs. NSDb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Heroic vs. HugeGraph vs. NSDb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

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

Primary database model

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

nsdb.io

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

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

spotify.github.io/heroic

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Spotify

Baidu

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2012

2014

2018

2017

1993

Current release

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

also supports composite index and range index

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Groovy
Java
Python

Java
Scala

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

edges in graph

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

Using Apache Lucene

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

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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