DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Brytlyt vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GridGain vs. Linter

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Brytlyt vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GridGain vs. Linter

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

RDBMS for high security requirements

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.38
Rank	#276	Overall
	#127	Relational DBMS

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

brytlyt.io

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.gridgain.com

linter.ru

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.brytlyt.io

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Brytlyt

Google

acquired by Google 2014

GridGain Systems, Inc.

relex.ru

Initial release

2012

2016

2012

2007

1990

Current release

5.0, August 2023

GridGain 8.5.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

Java, C++, .Net

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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