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DBMS > Firebird vs. Greenplum vs. jBASE vs. RocksDB

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

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#157  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggreenplum.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaserocksdb.org
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.greenplum.orgdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9github.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperFirebird FoundationPivotal Software Inc.Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Facebook, Inc.
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200519912013
Current release5.0.1, August 20247.0.0, September 20235.79.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalno
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 4.2yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyesyesno
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelno

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