DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. searchxml vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. searchxml vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.geomesa.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.searchxml.net/category/products

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

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

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

CCRi and others

Microsoft

informationpartners gmbh

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2014

2016

2015

2014

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

1.0

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
Java
PHP

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Transact SQL

yes

on the application server

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on storage layer

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

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

multiple readers, single writer

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

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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