DBMS > Altibase vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. MySQL vs. SingleStore

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. MySQL vs. SingleStore

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Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

Widely used open source RDBMS

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
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Score	0.31
Rank	#285	Overall
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.postgresql.fastware.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.mysql.com

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

www.postgresql.fastware.com/product-manuals

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Altibase

PostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software Technology

Google

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

1999

2017

1995

2013

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 2022

8.4.0, April 2024

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

partitioning by range, list and by hash

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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 for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

Transactional payments applications, reporting and mixed workloads.
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Key customers

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Market metrics

Over 30 years experience in database technology. Over 20 years in Postgres development...
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Licensing and pricing models

Core based licensing
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F ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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