DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HEAVY.AI vs. InterSystems Caché vs. mSQL

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HEAVY.AI vs. InterSystems Caché vs. mSQL

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

A multi-model DBMS and application server

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

docs.heavy.ai

docs.intersystems.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Google

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

InterSystems

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2012

2017

2016

1997

1994

Current release

5.10, January 2022

2018.1.4, May 2020

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C#
C++
Java

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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