DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. LokiJS vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. LokiJS vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

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

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

SAP, Sybase

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

2014

1987

2011

Current release

16.0

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

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

.Net

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

JavaScript

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

View functions in JavaScript

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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 operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Based on Windows Authentication

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