DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. FeatureBase vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. SAP Adaptive Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. FeatureBase vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

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

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#309	Overall
	#139	Relational DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.featurebase.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.featurebase.com

firebase.google.com/docs/database

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Google

acquired by Google 2014

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

2012

2017

2012

1987

Current release

2022, May 2022

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL queries

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
Python

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes, using Linux fsync

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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