DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Trino

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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.

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	6.63
Rank	#54	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	3.50
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	5.28
Rank	#61	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

trino.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Google

SAP

formerly Sybase

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2017

1992

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

SQL standard access control

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