DBMS > Firebolt vs. PostGIS vs. SAP HANA vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. PostGIS vs. SAP HANA vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.73
Rank	#140	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebolt.io

postgis.net

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.firebolt.io

postgis.net/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

SAP

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2020

2005

2010

1987

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

Source-replica replication

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

yes

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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