DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Rockset vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQream DB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Rockset vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQream DB vs. TerminusDB

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

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

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

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
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Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

rockset.com

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

sqream.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.rockset.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.sqream.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Rockset

SAP

formerly Sybase

SQream Technologies

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2019

1992

2017

2018

Current release

17, July 2015

2022.1.6, December 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

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

user defined functions in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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 organizations can be defined via Rockset console

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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