DB-EnginesextremeDB - solve IoT connectivity disruptionsEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by Redgate Software

DBMS > Apache Cassandra vs. Firebird vs. OushuDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. Firebird vs. OushuDB

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameApache Cassandra  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score108.21
Rank#11  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score16.74
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Websitecassandra.apache.orgwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDB
Technical documentationcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.oushu.com/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookFirebird FoundationOushu
Initial release20082000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase
Current release5.0-rc1, July 20245.0.1, August 20244.0.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)yesFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLyes
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"noneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptKerberos, SSL and role based access
More information provided by the system vendor
Apache CassandraFirebirdOushuDB
News

Building Graph-Based RAG Applications Just Got Easier
23 April 2025

Scale AI Agent Speed and Savings with Langflow and NVIDIA NeMo Microservices
23 April 2025

5 Days of Accuracy: A Recipe for AI That Gets It Right
22 April 2025

DataStax and Google Cloud: Partners in AI, Data, and Innovation
17 April 2025

Build a RAG Chat App with Firebase Genkit and Astra DB
15 April 2025

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
Apache CassandraFirebirdOushuDB
Recent citations in the news

Best practices for running Apache Cassandra with Amazon EBS
8 November 2024, Amazon Web Services

New Apache Cassandra 5.0 gives open source NoSQL database a scalability and performance boost
6 September 2024, VentureBeat

Apache Cassandra survey highlights growing adoption for AI workloads
11 November 2024, Blocks and Files

Apache Cassandra introduces version 5.0 of open-source NoSQL database
9 September 2024, techzine.eu

IBM plans to buy open source Cassandra wrangler DataStax
25 February 2025, theregister.com

provided by Google News

Firebird – Director, Data Science (US)
26 September 2024, Music Business Worldwide

FBI issues national security warning to Gmail, Outlook email users
17 March 2025, MassLive

12 Top Open Source Databases to Consider
1 May 2024, TechTarget

Firebird – Director, Business Intelligence (US)
23 October 2024, Music Business Worldwide

Exploring the Firebird Database
9 August 2023, Open Source For You

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

SingleStore logo

The data platform to build your intelligent applications.
Try it free.

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Present your product here