DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Elasticsearch vs. Kinetica vs. Snowflake vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Elasticsearch vs. Kinetica vs. Snowflake vs. WakandaDB

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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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

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	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.kinetica.com

www.snowflake.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

docs.kinetica.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Elastic

Kinetica

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2010

2012

2014

2012

Current release

8.6, January 2023

7.1, August 2021

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

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

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

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

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

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