DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

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

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigobject.io

github.com/spotify/heroic

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

rockset.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.bigobject.io

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

BigObject, Inc.

Spotify

Microsoft

Rockset

Initial release

2012

2015

2014

2016

2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
Java
PHP

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Lua

Transact SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

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

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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