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System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. GeoSpock vs. HBase vs. Quasardb vs. TimescaleDB

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NameFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.firebolt.iogeospock.comhbase.apache.orgquasar.aiwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.iohbase.apache.org/­book.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.GeoSpockApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetquasardbTimescale
Initial release2020200820092017
Current release2.0, September 20192.3.4, January 20213.14.1, January 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaC++C
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes infointeger and binarynumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalnoyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noSQL-like query languageyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methods.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoCoprocessors in Javanouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyeswith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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