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DBMS > Databend vs. FatDB vs. Firebird vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Databend vs. FatDB vs. Firebird vs. Spark SQL

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NameDatabend  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionAn open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexityA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.34
Rank#283  Overall
#130  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­datafuselabs/­databend
www.databend.com
www.firebirdsql.orgspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdocs.databend.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperDatabend LabsFatCloudFirebird FoundationApache Software Foundation
Initial release202120122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2014
Current release1.0.59, April 20235.0.0, January 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageRustC#C and C++Scala
Server operating systemshosted
Linux
macOS
WindowsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServeryesSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C#C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infovia applicationsPSQLno
Triggersnoyes infovia applicationsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user rolesno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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