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DBMS > Firebird vs. Graphite vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Graphite vs. Oracle Coherence

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  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 WhisperOracles in-memory data grid solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score18.54
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score4.81
Rank#63  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.74
Rank#131  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperFirebird FoundationChris DavisOracle
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20062007
Current release5.0.1, August 202414.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC and C++PythonJava
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Unix
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes
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
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Sockets
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnono
Triggersyesnoyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infooptionally
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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