DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hypertable vs. InterSystems Caché

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hypertable vs. InterSystems Caché

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Wide column store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.intersystems.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Hypertable Inc.

InterSystems

Initial release

2012

2009

1997

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2018.1.4, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

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

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor on file system level

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

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, groups and roles

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