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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. NSDb vs. OpenEdge

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesApplication development environment with integrated database management system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score17.94
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-servernsdb.iowww.progress.com/­openedge
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-servernsdb.io/­Architecturedocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)GoogleMicrosoftProgress Software Corporation
Initial release20122014198920171984
Current release2.1.12, February 2017SQL Server 2022, November 2022OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC++Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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.nonoyesnoyes
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyesSQL-like query languageyes infoclose to SQL 92
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJavaScriptC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
Java
Scala
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PythonnoTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javanoyes
TriggersnoUsing read-only observersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonetables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyes, but depending on the SQL-Server EditionSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime DatabaseyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDByesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groups

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