DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Hypertable vs. Linter vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Hypertable vs. Linter vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

RDBMS for high security requirements

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

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

linter.ru

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

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Hypertable Inc.

relex.ru

Sybase, SAP

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2012

2009

1990

1993

1999

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

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

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

Delphi
Perl
PHP

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor on file system level

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica 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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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