DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#377	Overall
	#58	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

SAP

formerly Sybase

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2012

1992

2016

Current release

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

C++
Java

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

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

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

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