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DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. Firebird vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft Access vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Firebird vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft Access vs. Quasardb

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NameCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory caching systemFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Distributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitecachelot.iowww.firebirdsql.orgwww.hawkular.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessquasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperFirebird FoundationCommunity supported by Red HatMicrosoftquasardb
Initial release20152000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201419922009
Current release5.0.0, January 20241902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++JavaC++C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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 indexesnoyesnoyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsMemcached protocolADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP RESTADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
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
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersnoyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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