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System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. eXtremeDB vs. Firebird vs. Lovefield vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Website

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.mcobject.com

www.firebirdsql.org

google.github.io/lovefield

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

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

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

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

McObject

Firebird Foundation

Google

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2016

2001

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2014

1984

Current release

1703

8.2, 2021

5.0.0, January 2024

2.1.12, February 2017

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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.

yes

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PSQL

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

horizontal partitioning / sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

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

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

LDAP bind authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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