DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. atoti vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. atoti vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Solr

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

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

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

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.52
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	#6	Search engines

Score	19.93
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	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

atoti.io

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

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.atoti.io

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

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

ActiveViam

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2015

2016

2006

Current release

9.6.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
Java
PHP

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Python

Transact SQL

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

yes

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