DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Quasardb vs. SAP IQ vs. SQLite vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Quasardb vs. SAP IQ vs. SQLite vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

column-oriented

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Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#332	Overall
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

quasar.ai

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

www.sqlite.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

doc.quasar.ai/master

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

quasardb

SAP, formerly Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

2009

1994

2000

1987

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

consistent hashing

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Hadoop integration

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

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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