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DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Kinetica vs. SAP IQ vs. Spark SQL vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Kinetica vs. SAP IQ vs. Spark SQL vs. SurrealDB

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score17.94
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.kinetica.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlspark.apache.org/­sqlsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdocs.kinetica.comhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)KineticaSAP, formerly SybaseApache Software FoundationSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20122012199420142022
Current release7.1, August 202116.1 SPS04, April 20193.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023v1.1.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCC, C++ScalaRust
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonuser defined functionsyesno
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexeryes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationSAP/Sybase Replication Servernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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