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DBMS > EXASOL vs. Firebird vs. GeoSpock vs. Machbase Neo vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Firebird vs. GeoSpock vs. Machbase Neo vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.firebirdsql.orggeospock.commachbase.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsmachbase.com/­dbmshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperExasolFirebird FoundationGeoSpockMachbaseSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20002000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20131992
Current release5.0.0, January 20242.0, September 2019V8.0, August 202317, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercialcommercial infofree test version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC and C++Java, JavascriptC
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBCgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
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
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsPSQLnonoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneAutomatic shardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infovolatile and lookup tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users can be defined per tablesimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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