DBMS > Firebird vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. NCache vs. Oracle Rdb vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. NCache vs. Oracle Rdb vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	19.46
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	2.97
Rank	#92	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	0.91
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Google

Alachisoft

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2015

2005

1984

1998

Current release

5.0.1, August 2024

5.3.3, April 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

HP Open VMS

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

yes, on a single node

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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 rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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