DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Drizzle vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. SpaceTime vs. Transwarp KunDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Drizzle vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. SpaceTime vs. Transwarp KunDB

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

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.

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#344	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Google

Mireo

Transwarp

Initial release

2012

2008

2017

2020

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

with proprietary extensions

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

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

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Java
PHP

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

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

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

yes

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