DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Elasticsearch vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Elasticsearch vs. Sphinx

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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

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	134.78
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	6.03
Rank	#60	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Elastic

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2012

2010

2001

Current release

8.6, January 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

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

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Memcached and Redis integration

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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