DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. searchxml vs. Sequoiadb vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. searchxml vs. Sequoiadb vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Cloud-based data warehousing service

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Document 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	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.sequoiadb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

IBM

informationpartners gmbh

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

2014

2015

2013

1987

Current release

1.0

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

on the application server

JavaScript

yes

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

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

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

multiple readers, single writer

Document is locked during a transaction

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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