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DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RocksDB vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RocksDB vs. Spark SQL

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score17.94
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.kinetica.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchrocksdb.orgspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdocs.kinetica.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikispark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)KineticaMicrosoftFacebook, Inc.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20122012201520132014
Current release7.1, August 2021V18.11.4, April 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageCC, C++C++Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioningyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoyesno
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.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes infousing Azure authenticationnono

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