DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. QuestDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. STSdb vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. QuestDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. STSdb vs. YDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	2.70
Rank	#105	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

questdb.io

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

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

questdb.io/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

QuestDB Technology Inc

SAP

formerly Sybase

STS Soft SC

Yandex

Initial release

2012

2014

1992

2011

2019

Current release

17, July 2015

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL with time-series extensions

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

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

C#
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

ACID for single-table writes

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

through memory mapped files

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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Specific characteristics

Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantages

High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenarios

Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customers

Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing models

Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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