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DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Immudb vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Immudb vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Snowflake

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonImmudb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsAn open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score15.25
Rank#38  Overall
#23  Relational DBMS
Score0.24
Rank#295  Overall
#42  Key-value stores
Score5.75
Rank#58  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score18.98
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score133.72
Rank#7  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftgithub.com/­codenotary/­immudb
immudb.io
azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdocs.immudb.iolearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)CodenotaryMicrosoftMicrosoftSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20122020201520162014
Current release1.2.3, April 2022V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCGoC++
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
hostedhostedhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSQL-like syntaxnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
Java
PHP
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PythonnonoTransact SQLuser defined functions
Triggersnonononono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding, horizontal partitioningyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnonono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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