DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Heroic vs. RRDtool vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Stardog

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Heroic vs. RRDtool vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Stardog

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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

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

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

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.70
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.93
Rank	#121	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/spotify/heroic

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

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

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

spotify.github.io/heroic

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Spotify

Tobias Oetiker

Sybase, SAP

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2012

2014

1999

1993

2010

Current release

1.8.0, 2022

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

HP-UX
Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

in-process shared library
Pipes

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Delphi
Perl
PHP

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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