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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graphite vs. Tigris

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

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Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	13.60
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	5.19
Rank	#62	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#359	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#52	Key-value stores
	#23	Search engines
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.tigrisdata.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

firebase.google.com/docs/database

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Chris Davis

Tigris Data, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2006

2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Sockets

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

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

none

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using FoundationDB

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

Access rights for users and roles

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