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DBMS > Firebolt vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Lovefield vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Lovefield vs. SpaceTime

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NameFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseCloud-based data warehousing serviceEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.firebolt.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.iogithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.IBMGoogleMireo
Initial release2020201420142020
Current release2.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.no infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methods.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.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
JavaScriptC#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPL/SQL, SQL PLnono
TriggersnoyesUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryesnoneReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes

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