DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Firebird vs. GridDB vs. OpenQM

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Firebird vs. GridDB vs. OpenQM

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.95
Rank	#128	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.firebirdsql.org

griddb.net

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.griddb.net

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Firebird Foundation

Toshiba Corporation

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

2012

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2013

1993

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

5.1, August 2022

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

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 and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

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

ACID at container level

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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Specific characteristics

GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages

1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customers

Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metrics

GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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