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DBMS > Firebird vs. Graphite vs. Greenplum vs. jBASE

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Graphite vs. Greenplum vs. jBASE

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgreenplum.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.greenplum.orgdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperFirebird FoundationChris DavisPivotal Software Inc.Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200620051991
Current release5.0.0, January 20247.0.0, September 20235.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++Python
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Unix
LinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesoptional
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.noyes infosince Version 4.2yes
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnoyesyes
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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