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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Firebird vs. Interbase vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Firebird vs. Interbase vs. Riak KV

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperApache Software FoundationFirebird FoundationEmbarcaderoOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase19842009
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.0.0, January 2024InterBase 2020, December 20193.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CErlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nono infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsPSQLyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageErlang
Triggersnoyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationInterbase Change Viewsselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak Security

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