DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kinetica vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kinetica vs. MonetDB

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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.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	13.60
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#153	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#261	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.kinetica.com

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.heavy.ai

docs.kinetica.com

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Google

acquired by Google 2014

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Kinetica

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2012

2016

2012

2004

Current release

5.10, January 2022

7.1, August 2021

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
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

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

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

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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

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

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

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

Access rights for users and roles on table level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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