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DBMS > Firebird vs. GridGain vs. Netezza vs. RisingWave

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. GridGain vs. Netezza vs. RisingWave

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSColumnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#150  Overall
#1  Columnar
#26  Key-value stores
#2  Object oriented DBMS
#69  Relational DBMS
Score7.56
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#237  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.gridgain.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.risingwave.com/­database
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
DeveloperFirebird FoundationGridGain Systems, Inc.IBMRisingWave Labs
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200720002022
Current release5.0.1, August 2024GridGain 8.5.11.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial, open sourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQLRust
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux infoincluded in applianceDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesStandard SQL-types and JSON
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesUDFs in Python or Java
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptRole-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations
Users with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers and Roles

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