DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. DolphinDB vs. Graph Engine vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. DolphinDB vs. Graph Engine vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	4.23
Rank	#82	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	5.71
Rank	#64	Overall
	#8	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.dolphindb.com

www.graphengine.io

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

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

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

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

DolphinDB, Inc

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2018

2010

2015

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

.NET and C

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

.NET

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

yes

using Azure authentication

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