DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Firebolt vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Firebolt vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	15.10
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#152	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	101.91
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.firebolt.io

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.firebolt.io

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

2020

2000

Current release

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on storage layer

none

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

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