DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. NSDb vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. NSDb vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.39
Rank	#276	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.27
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

nsdb.io

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

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

nsdb.io/Architecture

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Kyligence, Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2016

2017

1994

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

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