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System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. Hive vs. LokiJS vs. PostGIS vs. TinkerGraph

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NameFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from Clickhousedata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopIn-memory JavaScript DBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.firebolt.iohive.apache.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSpostgis.nettinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.iocwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Hometechfort.github.io/­LokiJSpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by Facebook
Initial release20202012201420052009
Current release3.1.3, April 20223.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptCJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesno
APIs and other access methods.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
JavaScript APITinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScriptGroovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerselectable replication factornoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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