DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. LeanXcale vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. LeanXcale vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Cloud-based data warehousing service

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.leanxcale.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

IBM

LeanXcale

SAP

formerly Sybase

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2012

2014

2015

1992

2010

Current release

17, July 2015

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
Java
Scala

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication
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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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