DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. Firebird vs. Machbase Neo vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Firebird vs. Machbase Neo vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

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

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

column-oriented

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	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

cachelot.io

www.firebirdsql.org

machbase.com

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

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

machbase.com/dbms

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Machbase

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2015

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2013

1994

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

V8.0, August 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

free test version available

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++

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS
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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
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

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

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

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

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

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.

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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