DBMS > Firebolt vs. Google BigQuery vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. Google BigQuery vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.90
Rank	#134	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Website

www.firebolt.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

Technical documentation

docs.firebolt.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

Developer

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Google

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Microsoft

Initial release

2020

2010

1991

2015

Current release

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

using Azure authentication

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