DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

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

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational 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	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

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

sqream.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Oracle

SAP, Sybase

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2012

2011

1987

2017

Current release

23.3, December 2023

16.0

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

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

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java and Transact-SQL

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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