DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RDFox vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RDFox vs. TinkerGraph

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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

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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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	0.22
Rank	#305	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#15	RDF stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#345	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Microsoft

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2012

2015

2016

2017

2009

Current release

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
Java
PHP

C
Java

Groovy
Java

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

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

replication via a shared file system

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

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

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

optional

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

Roles, resources, and access types

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