DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Microsoft

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2012

1991

2012

2001

Current release

5.7

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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