DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Firebird vs. InfluxDB vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Firebird vs. InfluxDB vs. Postgres-XL

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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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	19.46
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	22.12
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.firebirdsql.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Firebird Foundation

Initial release

2012

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2013

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

5.0.1, August 2024

2.7.6, April 2024

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

PSQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

MVCC

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

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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