DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.kinetica.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.kinetica.com

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Kinetica

Microsoft

Yandex

Initial release

2012

2016

2023

Current release

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Ubuntu

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
PHP

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Transact SQL

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

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

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

Access Control Lists

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