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DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. Firebird vs. SAP IQ vs. Speedb

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Firebird vs. SAP IQ vs. Speedb

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NameCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory caching systemFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#310  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Websitecachelot.iowww.firebirdsql.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.speedb.io
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperFirebird FoundationSAP, formerly SybaseSpeedb
Initial release20152000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase19942020
Current release5.0.0, January 202416.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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 indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsMemcached protocolADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
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
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLyesno
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexerhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSAP/Sybase Replication Serveryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
More information provided by the system vendor
Cachelot.ioFirebirdSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQSpeedb
Specific characteristicsSpeedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesSpeedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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