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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. SAP IQ vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#205	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

SAP, formerly Sybase

Tencent

Initial release

2012

1994

2013

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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