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DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Spark SQL

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.89
Rank#137  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score19.03
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#130  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score19.15
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbaws.amazon.com/­redshiftphoenix.apache.orgspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftphoenix.apache.orgspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Apache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation
Initial release2019201220142014
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageCJavaScala
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesrestrictedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)JDBC
ODBC
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin Pythonuser defined functionsno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)noHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyno

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