DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Pinot vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Pinot vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

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

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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
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Score	0.38
Rank	#275	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

pinot.apache.org

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

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.pinot.apache.org

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

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2015

2016

2012

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
Java
PHP

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Transact SQL

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

using Azure authentication

yes

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