DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NSDb vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NSDb vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	5.75
Rank	#58	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#244	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

nsdb.io

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

nsdb.io/Architecture

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Microsoft

Splice Machine

Initial release

2012

2015

2016

2017

2014

Current release

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Scala

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
Java
PHP

Java
Scala

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Transact SQL

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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