DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Doris vs. BigchainDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Doris vs. BigchainDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Heroic

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

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.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#244	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

www.bigchaindb.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

github.com/spotify/heroic

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Google

Spotify

Initial release

2012

2017

2016

2017

2014

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
MySQL client

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

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

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

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