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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Firebird vs. Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Firebird vs. Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA widely adopted in-memory data gridA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeWide column storeMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score3.16
Rank#97  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.firebirdsql.orghazelcast.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualshazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperApache Software FoundationFirebird FoundationHazelcastMicrosoftRocket Software
Initial release20122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200820121985
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.0.0, January 20245.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesoptional
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 infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJava API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsPSQLyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesnoyes
Triggersnoyesyes infoEventsnoyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoReplicated Mapyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedoptimistic lockingACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptRole-based access controlAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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