DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RRDtool

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

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

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

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

machbase.com

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

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

machbase.com/dbms

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

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Machbase

Microsoft

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2012

2013

2015

2016

1999

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
Java
PHP

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Transact SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

yes

using Azure authentication

yes

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