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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Firebird vs. InterSystems Caché vs. TimesTen

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

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

A multi-model DBMS and application server

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.32
Rank	#288	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	21.06
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1.35
Rank	#165	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.firebirdsql.org

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

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

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.intersystems.com

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Firebird Foundation

InterSystems

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2013

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1997

1998

Current release

15585

5.0.0, January 2024

2018.1.4, May 2020

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PSQL

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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