DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Hive vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Hive vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

phoenix.apache.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

hive.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

phoenix.apache.org

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

FairCom Corporation

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2014

1979

2012

2010

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

V3, October 2020

3.1.3, April 2022

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

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

Java

ANSI C, C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL 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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

ANSI SQL queries

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

selectable replication factor

yes, with always 3 replicas available

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

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

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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