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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Firebird vs. HyperSQL vs. NCache vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Description

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	0.35
Rank	#274	Overall
	#128	Relational DBMS

Score	19.46
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	3.14
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.91
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

www.firebirdsql.org

hsqldb.org

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Firebird Foundation

Alachisoft

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2015

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2001

2005

1984

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

5.0.1, August 2024

2.7.2, June 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
Windows

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

Java, SQL

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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