DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. RethinkDB vs. Rockset vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. RethinkDB vs. Rockset 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

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
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Score	0.46
Rank	#266	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

rethinkdb.com

rockset.com

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

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

rethinkdb.com/docs

docs.rockset.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Kyligence, Inc.

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Rockset

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2016

2009

2019

1994

Current release

2.4.1, August 2020

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

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)

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

range based

Automatic sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

yes

users and table-level permissions

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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