DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Cloud-based data warehousing service

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#266	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

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

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

IBM

Kyligence, Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2014

2016

2015

Current release

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

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

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

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