DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. DuckDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. DuckDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

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

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
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Score	5.61
Rank	#60	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	5.75
Rank	#58	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

duckdb.org

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

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

duckdb.org/docs

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

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Microsoft

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2012

2018

2015

2016

2003

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
Java
PHP

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication

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

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

using Azure authentication

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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