DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. IBM Db2 vs. Sadas Engine vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. IBM Db2 vs. Sadas Engine vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

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

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	123.05
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#244	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.sadasengine.com

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

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

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

IBM

SADAS s.r.l.

Splice Machine

Initial release

2012

1983

host version

2006

2014

Current release

12.1, October 2016

8.0

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

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 and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

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

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

horizontal partitioning

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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