DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. BoltDB vs. Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BoltDB vs. Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An embedded key-value store for Go.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

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

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	16.88
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Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/boltdb/bolt

hazelcast.com

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

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

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

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Hazelcast

Microsoft

SiteWhere

Initial release

2012

2013

2008

2015

2010

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

Replicated Map

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

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

Role-based access control

yes

using Azure authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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