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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. RDFox vs. SiriDB

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Name

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.

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	8.96
Rank	#48	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.24
Rank	#309	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#346	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

siridb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Google

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Cesbit

Initial release

2012

2017

Current release

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

C
Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

replication via a shared file system

yes

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

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

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.

Roles, resources, and access types

simple rights management via user accounts

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