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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. GridGain vs. NCache vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Description

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

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

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

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	19.46
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.48
Rank	#150	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#26	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#69	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.gridgain.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

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

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

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

Developer

Firebird Foundation

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Alachisoft

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2007

2005

1984

2020

Current release

5.0.1, August 2024

GridGain 8.5.1

5.3.3, April 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial, open source

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

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

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

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

yes (replicated cache)

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

yes, on a single node

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

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

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