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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Firebird vs. Machbase Neo vs. Prometheus vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Firebird vs. Machbase Neo vs. Prometheus vs. searchxml

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgmachbase.comprometheus.iowww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsmachbase.com/­dbmsprometheus.io/­docswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerFirebird FoundationMachbaseinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20082000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201320152015
Current release7.2.4, September 20125.0.0, January 2024V8.0, August 20231.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++CGoC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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 infoImport of XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLnonoyes infoon the application server
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationselectable replication factoryes infoby Federationyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonomultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infovolatile and lookup tablenono
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptsimple password-based access controlnoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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