DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Elasticsearch vs. Kinetica vs. Quasardb vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Elasticsearch vs. Kinetica vs. Quasardb vs. Spark SQL

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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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.kinetica.com

quasar.ai

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

docs.kinetica.com

doc.quasar.ai/master

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Elastic

Kinetica

quasardb

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2010

2012

2009

2014

Current release

8.6, January 2023

7.1, August 2021

3.14.1, January 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

consistent hashing

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

with Hadoop integration

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 depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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