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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Score	0.34
Rank	#283	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

cachelot.io

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

www.firebirdsql.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

docs.databend.com

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Databend Labs

Firebird Foundation

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2015

2021

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1994

Current release

1.0.59, April 2023

5.0.0, January 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted
Linux
macOS

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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