DBMS > EXASOL vs. Firebird vs. Kdb vs. Oracle vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Firebird vs. Kdb vs. Oracle vs. Splice Machine

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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

Widely used RDBMS

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#49	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.firebirdsql.org

kx.com

www.oracle.com/database

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

code.kx.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Exasol

Firebird Foundation

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Oracle

Splice Machine

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

1980

2014

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

3.6, May 2018

23c, September 2023

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

PSQL

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

similar paradigm used for internal processing

can be realized in PL/SQL

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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