DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. ObjectBox

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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

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

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS
	#7	Vector DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

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

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

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

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Microsoft

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2012

2014

2015

2016

2017

Current release

4.0 (May 2024)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
Java
PHP

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

View functions in JavaScript

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

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

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

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