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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Graph Engine vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.graphengine.io

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Microsoft

Oracle

Initial release

2012

2010

2015

2007

Current release

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

.NET

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

optionally

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

using Azure authentication

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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