DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. chDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. chDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

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

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

doc.chdb.io

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2023

2012

2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

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++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

hosted

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Transact SQL

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

yes

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