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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. GBase vs. Interbase vs. Memgraph vs. Splunk

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.gbase.cnwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasememgraph.comwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasememgraph.com/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperFirebird FoundationGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.EmbarcaderoMemgraph LtdSplunk Inc.
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2004198420172003
Current release5.0.0, January 2024GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cInterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C, Java, PythonCC and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free and schema-optionalyes
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.yesno infoexport as XML data possiblenoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesStandard with numerous extensionsyesnono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLuser defined functionsyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnoneSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesInterbase Change ViewsMulti-source replication using RAFTMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissionsAccess rights for users and roles
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