DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. OrientDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sphinx vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. OrientDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sphinx vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

orientdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

sphinxsearch.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

sphinxsearch.com/docs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

SAP

formerly Sybase

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2010

1992

2001

2018

Current release

3.2.29, March 2024

17, July 2015

3.5.1, February 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java, Javascript

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

Triggers

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

relationship in graphs

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

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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