DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. EXASOL vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Redis

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. EXASOL vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Redis

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Name

Description

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

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

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

Popular in-memory data platform used as a cache, message broker, and database that can be deployed on-premises, across clouds, and hybrid environments

Redis focuses on performance so most of its design decisions prioritize high performance and very low latencies.

Primary database model

Multiple data types and a rich set of operations, as well as configurable data expiration, eviction and persistence

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store

with RedisJSON
Graph DBMS

with RedisGraph
Spatial DBMS
Search engine

with RediSearch
Time Series DBMS

with RedisTimeSeries
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	155.94
Rank	#6	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.exasol.com

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

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

redis.com
redis.io

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

www.exasol.com/resources

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

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.redis.com/latest/index.html
redis.io/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Exasol

Microsoft

Redis project core team, inspired by Salvatore Sanfilippo

Development sponsored by Redis Inc.

Initial release

2014

2000

2015

2016

2009

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

7.2.5, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Redis Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

yes

with RediSearch module

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with RediSQL module

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Java
Lua
Python
R

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
Java
PHP

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL

Lua; Redis Functions coming in Redis 7 (slides and Github)

Triggers

yes

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality; RedisGears

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Automatic hash-based sharding with support for hash-tags for manual sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication

Chained replication is supported

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Hadoop integration

through RedisGears

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Causal consistency can be enabled in Active-Active databases
Strong consistency with Redis Raft
Strong eventual consistency with Active-Active

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts and optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

yes

Access Control Lists (ACLs): redis.io/docs/management/security/acl
LDAP and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for Redis Enterprise
Mutual TLS authentication: redis.io/docs/management/security/encryption
Password-based authentication

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