DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Firebird vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Firebird vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Valentina Server

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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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

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

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	19.46
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	5.75
Rank	#58	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#313	Overall
	#140	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.firebirdsql.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Firebird Foundation

Microsoft

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2012

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2015

2016

1999

Current release

5.0.1, August 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

PSQL

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

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

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

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

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

yes

using Azure authentication

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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