DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Graphite vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Graphite vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

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

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

graphite.readthedocs.io

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

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Chris Davis

Microsoft

Mireo

Initial release

2012

2006

2015

2020

Current release

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Sockets

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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

using Azure authentication

yes

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