DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. EXASOL vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. EXASOL vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

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

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
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Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.exasol.com

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

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.exasol.com/resources

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

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Exasol

Microsoft

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2000

2015

2016

2018

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

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++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

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

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
Lua
Python
R

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
Java
PHP

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

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

in-memory journaling

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

yes

Role-based access control

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