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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SQream DB vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

sqream.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Microsoft

SQream Technologies

8Kdata

Initial release

2012

2016

2017

2016

Current release

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
Java
PHP

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Transact SQL

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

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

Access rights for users and roles

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