DBMS > Firebird vs. Google BigQuery vs. Sphinx vs. Splice Machine vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Google BigQuery vs. Sphinx vs. Splice Machine vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
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Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
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Website

www.firebirdsql.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

sphinxsearch.com

splicemachine.com

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

sphinxsearch.com/docs

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Google

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Splice Machine

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2010

2001

2014

2012

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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

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