DBMS > Firebolt vs. JSqlDb vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. JSqlDb vs. Snowflake

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.90
Rank	#134	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebolt.io

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.firebolt.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Konrad von Backstrom

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2020

2018

2014

Current release

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

none

yes

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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