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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Firebird vs. H2 vs. InterSystems Caché vs. OpenEdge

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A multi-model DBMS and application serverApplication development environment with integrated database management system
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
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Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dolphindb.comwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.h2database.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.progress.com/­openedge
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.intersystems.comdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncFirebird FoundationThomas MuellerInterSystemsProgress Software Corporation
Initial release20182000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200519971984
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20225.0.0, January 20242.2.220, July 20232018.1.4, May 2020OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesdepending on used data modelyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesyesyesyes infoclose to SQL 92
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaC#
C++
Java
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPSQLJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyesyes
Triggersnoyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnonenonenonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, GroupsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesUsers and groups

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