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DBMS > FeatureBase vs. Firebird vs. Ingres vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. Firebird vs. Ingres vs. Sqrrl

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NameFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseWell established RDBMSAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.23
Rank#296  Overall
#134  Relational DBMS
Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score3.63
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.featurebase.comwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingressqrrl.com
Technical documentationdocs.featurebase.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.actian.com/­ingres
DeveloperMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsFirebird FoundationActian CorporationAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.
Initial release20172000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2012
Current release2022, May 20225.0.1, August 202412.0, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++CJava
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL queriesyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyesno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding infomaking use of Hadoop
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationIngres Replicatorselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoop
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entity
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, using Linux fsyncyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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