DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. FileMaker vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Kinetica

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. FileMaker vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Kinetica

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.claris.com/filemaker

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.kinetica.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.kinetica.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Kinetica

Initial release

2012

1983

2012

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

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.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

via plugins

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

PHP

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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