DBMS > Firebolt vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. Google BigQuery vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. Google BigQuery vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.49
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#304	Overall
	#137	Relational DBMS

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#332	Overall
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.firebolt.io

www.postgresql.fastware.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

docs.firebolt.io

www.postgresql.fastware.com/product-manuals

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

PostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software Technology

Google

quasardb

Initial release

2020

2010

2009

Current release

Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 2022

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

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++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

partitioning by range, list and by hash

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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