DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.

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

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#285	Overall
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.postgresql.fastware.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

rockset.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.postgresql.fastware.com/product-manuals

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

PostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software Technology

Microsoft

Rockset

Initial release

2012

2016

2019

Current release

Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
Java
PHP

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

partitioning by range, list and by hash

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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Specific characteristics

100% compatible with community PostgreSQL
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Competitive advantages

Built-in TDE and Data Masking security. In-Memory Columnar Index, and a high speed...
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Typical application scenarios

Transactional payments applications, reporting and mixed workloads.
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Market metrics

Over 30 years experience in database technology. Over 20 years in Postgres development...
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Licensing and pricing models

Core based licensing
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