DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. BigchainDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Tkrzw vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BigchainDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Tkrzw vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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.

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

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Score	16.88
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	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.bigchaindb.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

dbmx.net/tkrzw

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Google

Mikio Hirabayashi

SenX

Initial release

2012

2016

2017

2020

2015

Current release

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

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

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

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

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

based on HBase

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

using specific database classes

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.

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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