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

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

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.65
Rank	#234	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#107	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.kinetica.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

spark.apache.org/sql

typedb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.kinetica.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

typedb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Kinetica

SAP, formerly Sybase

Apache Software Foundation

Vaticle

Initial release

2012

1994

2014

2016

Current release

7.1, August 2021

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Python
R
Scala

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

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

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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