DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Elasticsearch vs. Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Elasticsearch vs. Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Prometheus

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

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

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

hazelcast.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Elastic

Hazelcast

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2010

2008

2010

2015

Current release

8.6, January 2023

5.3.6, November 2023

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

yes

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes

by Federation

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

ACID

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

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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