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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Splice Machine vs. StarRocks

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Name

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

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

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

splicemachine.com

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Microsoft

Splice Machine

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2012

2016

2014

2020

Current release

3.1, March 2021

2.5.3, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
Java
PHP

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

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Transact SQL

yes

Java

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

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)

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, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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