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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Greenplum vs. Hazelcast vs. IRONdb vs. ITTIA

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonITTIA  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseAnalytic 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 widely adopted in-memory data gridA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityEdge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.44
Rank#267  Overall
#23  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggreenplum.orghazelcast.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.ittia.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.greenplum.orghazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperFirebird FoundationPivotal Software Inc.HazelcastCirconus LLC.ITTIA L.L.C.
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2005200820172007
Current release5.0.0, January 20247.0.0, September 20235.3.6, November 2023V0.10.20, January 20188.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC and C++C and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsFloat/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval
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.yes infosince Version 4.2yes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyesyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyes, in Luayes
Triggersyesyesyes infoEventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes infoReplicated Mapconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlnoDatabase file passwords

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