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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Firebird vs. JaguarDB vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	2.25
Rank	#120	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	21.06
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#356	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#377	Overall
	#58	Key-value stores

Website

www.exasol.com

www.firebirdsql.org

www.jaguardb.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Exasol

Firebird Foundation

DataJaguar, Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2015

2016

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

PSQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

rights management via user accounts

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