DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. InfinityDB vs. RDFox vs. SAP Adaptive Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. InfinityDB vs. RDFox vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

boilerbay.com

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Boiler Bay Inc.

Oxford Semantic Technologies

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

2012

2002

2017

1987

Current release

4.0

6.0, Septermber 2022

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

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

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

C
Java

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

replication via a shared file system

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

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Roles, resources, and access types

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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