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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Firebird vs. Quasardb vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Firebird vs. Quasardb vs. SAP IQ

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.firebirdsql.orgquasar.aiwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdoc.quasar.ai/­masterhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperApache Software FoundationFirebird FoundationquasardbSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release20122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20091994
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.0.0, January 20243.14.1, January 202416.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsPSQLnoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoconsistent hashingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnowith Hadoop integrationHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
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 infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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