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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Firebird vs. GBase vs. PieCloudDB

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.51
Rank#60  Overall
#10  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#6  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
#2  Vector DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.gbase.cnwww.openpie.com
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manuals
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebook
DeveloperAerospikeFirebird FoundationGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.OpenPie
Initial release20122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2004
Current release7.1, May 20245.0.0, January 2024GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.1, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC and C++C, Java, Python
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesStandard with numerous extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith LuaPSQLuser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyesUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafFirebirdGBasePieCloudDB
Specific characteristicsAerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesOptimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosAerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersNielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Market metricsAerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSubscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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PieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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