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DBMS > Firebolt vs. GeoSpock vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. OpenQM vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. GeoSpock vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. OpenQM vs. Pinecone

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NameFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  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 scaleCloud-based data warehousing serviceQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.firebolt.iogeospock.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.iodocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.GeoSpockIBMRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release2020201419932019
Current release2.0, September 20193.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesnoyes
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Implementation languageJava, Javascript
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infowith some exceptions
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesString, Number, Boolean
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possibleyesno
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesnono
APIs and other access methods.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoPL/SQL, SQL PLyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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