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DBMS > BigObject vs. Cachelot.io vs. Firebird vs. SwayDB vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Cachelot.io vs. Firebird vs. SwayDB vs. Ultipa

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonUltipa  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesIn-memory caching systemFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageHigh performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.19
Rank#330  Overall
#30  Graph DBMS
Websitebigobject.iocachelot.iowww.firebirdsql.orgswaydb.simer.auwww.ultipa.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.ultipa.com/­document
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Firebird FoundationSimer PlahaUltipa
Initial release201520152000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20182019
Current release5.0.0, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesno
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 indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Memcached protocolADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoPSQLno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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