DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Kinetica vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Kinetica vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Spark SQL

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.64
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Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
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Score	4.48
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	#6	Wide column stores

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.kinetica.com

www.memcached.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.kinetica.com

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

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

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Kinetica

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2003

2012

2014

Current release

7.1, August 2021

1.6.25, March 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

optimistic locking

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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