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Name

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Website

bangdb.com

www.firebirdsql.org

hazelcast.com

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Firebird Foundation

Hazelcast

Initial release

2012

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2008

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

5.0.0, January 2024

5.3.6, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Source-replica replication

yes

Replicated Map

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

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

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Role-based access control

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