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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

column oriented

Secondary database models

Document store

If a column is of type dynamic docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kusto/query/scalar-data-types/dynamic then it's possible to add arbitrary JSON documents in this cell
Event Store

this is the general usage pattern at Microsoft. Billing, Logs, Telemetry events are stored in ADX and the state of an individual entity is defined by the arg_max(timestamps)
Spatial DBMS
Search engine

support for complex search expressions docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kusto/query/parseoperator FTS, Geospatial docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kusto/query/geo-point-to-geohash-function distributed search -> ADX acts as a distributed search engine
Time Series DBMS

see docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer/time-series-analysis

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	4.38
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

aws.amazon.com/redshift

memgraph.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/data-explorer

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

memgraph.com/docs

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer

docs.teradata.com

Social network pages

Developer

Amazon

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Memgraph Ltd

Microsoft

Teradata

Initial release

2012

2017

2019

1984

Current release

cloud service with continuous releases

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

Fixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

bool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kusto/query/scalar-data-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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

restricted

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Kusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

see docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kusto/management/updatepolicy

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Spark connector (open source): github.com/Azure/azure-kusto-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

authentication via encrypted signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

Azure Active Directory Authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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