DBMS > Firebolt vs. Google BigQuery vs. Ingres vs. MarkLogic

System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. Google BigQuery vs. Ingres vs. MarkLogic

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Name

Description

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Well established RDBMS

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

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Score	1.73
Rank	#140	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	5.18
Rank	#63	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#7	Search engines

Website

www.firebolt.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.progress.com/marklogic

Technical documentation

docs.firebolt.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.actian.com/ingres

www.progress.com/marklogic/documentation

Developer

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Google

Actian Corporation

MarkLogic Corp.

Initial release

2020

2010

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2001

Current release

11.2, May 2022

11.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL92

APIs and other access methods

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Ingres Replicator

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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, with Range Indexes

User concepts

Access control

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

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