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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Heroic vs. Memgraph vs. PostGIS 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

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/spotify/heroic

memgraph.com

postgis.net

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

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

spotify.github.io/heroic

memgraph.com/docs

postgis.net/documentation

Social network pages

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Spotify

Memgraph Ltd

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2012

2014

2017

2005

1993

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

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

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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