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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. HBase vs. Immudb vs. InfinityDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.24
Rank	#305	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

hbase.apache.org

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

boilerbay.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.immudb.io

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Codenotary

Boiler Bay Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2008

2020

2002

2013

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

2.3.4, January 2021

1.2.3, April 2022

4.0

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like syntax

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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