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DBMS > Firebolt vs. Greenplum vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. Greenplum vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Spatial extension of H2Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitewww.firebolt.iogreenplum.orgwww.h2gis.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.iodocs.greenplum.orgwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.Pivotal Software Inc.CNRSIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release2020200520132010
Current release7.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaErlang
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.yes infosince Version 4.2nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesno
APIs and other access methods.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infobased on H2View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on H2Access rights for users can be defined per database

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