DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache IoTDB vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache IoTDB vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

iotdb.apache.org

www.jaguardb.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

DataJaguar, Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2018

2015

2016

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux

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

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

yes

rights management via user accounts

yes

using Azure authentication

yes

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