DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Firebird vs. Google BigQuery vs. Infobright

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Firebird vs. Google BigQuery vs. Infobright

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Name

Description

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.firebirdsql.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Firebird Foundation

Google

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Initial release

2016

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2010

2005

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PSQL

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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