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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. GridGain vs. Oracle Rdb vs. OrigoDB

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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

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	21.06
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#155	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#187	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#378	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.gridgain.com

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

origodb.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

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

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Firebird Foundation

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2007

1984

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

GridGain 8.5.1

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

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

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

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

yes

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

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

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Role based authorization

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