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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. SQLite vs. STSdb vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
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Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.sqlite.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Dwayne Richard Hipp

STS Soft SC

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

2000

2011

Current release

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

.NET Client API

.Net

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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#
Java

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

via file-system locks

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

Based on Windows Authentication

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